Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Adding methods like getElementById and getElementsByTagName to DocumentFragments from Tab Atkins Jr. on 2013-09-06 (public-whatwg-archive@w3.org from September 2013)

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 11:54:11 -0700
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDB4__DmZBKwfbS6+v3ADhJkODe-BtRcMAhjDdRrQResFQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
>> In that case I think we need to add a function to the platform that
>> CSS-escapes a string.
>
> Maybe a thing for window.CSS? Simon?

Yeah, exposing window.CSS.escapeIdent(DOMString) would make sense.  As
noted, this is useful for ids, for tag names, and maybe even things
like attribute names and values.

~TJ

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