- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:54:57 -0800
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, Vincent Hardy <vhardy@adobe.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Feb 23, 2012, at 8:44 AM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Feb 20, 2012, at 9:51 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote: >> >>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Sylvain Galineau wrote: >>> >>>>> sylvaing: without dom elements, you can't receive clicks, etc. >>>>> >>>>> That seems like a solvable problem that should be solved for all generated pseudo-elements (like ::before and ::after too). Something like >'getElementsByTagName("body")[0].pseudos.slot[0]'.addEventListener(click, myfunction)'. >>>> >>>> That is the general concept, yes. Though such nodes are by definition not in the DOM and using the same plumbing means defining what bubbling >>>> and other things that assume a parent chain look like. I haven't thought about it much yet but my working assumption is that it could be trickier >>>> than it looks. >>>> >>> >>> Rather than adding event handlers to the anonymous boxes, I think it would be simpler if you just register event handlers with the nearest enclosing explicit DOM element, and then have a field that allows you to figure out which anonymous box was hit. >> >> So... Something like this? >> >> getElementsByTagName("body")[0].addEventListener(click, myfunction, pseudos.slot[0]) >> >> Or maybe I misunderstand you. Legacy browsers would ignore the extra argument, wouldn't they? > > I believe he means a property on the event object exposing which > pseudo on the event's target was hit. So if you just wanted to listen > for clicks on a ::before, you'd write something like: > > el.onclick = function(e) { > if( e.target.pseudo == "before" ) { > ... > } > } Oh, OK. I like that. It is clean, and makes sense.
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