Re: [cssom-view] Need a variant of elementFromPoint that returns a NodeList

On Feb 8, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> elementFromPoint() is defined to return a single Element, but apparently 
> it is quite common for users of this API to find that the element at the 
> given point isn't the element they want, because multiple elements are 
> overlaid on the same spot on the canvas.
> 
> It would be useful for such users if a variant of this API could be made 
> that returns a (static) NodeList giving all the elements under that point.

I'm glad you said static!

Why would you want to return a node that can never be hit by the user?

If the author wants to make a node invisible to user events, they can use
the pointer-events property.

Simon