- From: David Håsäther <hasather@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 19:35:55 +0100
- To: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> wrote: > For event bubbling, it is very useful to traverse up the DOM tree to > find an ancestor. For example: > > findAncestorWithClass(el, className, /*opt*/ container); > findAncestorWithAttribute(el, attName, /*opt*/ value); > jqueryObj.closest(selectorText, /*opt*/ context) > > It would be useful to have an API that traverses up the DOM tree and > tests each Element against a selector and returns either an Element or > null. Agreed, very useful. There is an issue filed for the DOM spec: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16488 -- David Håsäther
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