Re: [selectors4] Upwards Ancestor Traversal API

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

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David Håsäther