Re: [selectors4] Upwards Ancestor Traversal API

On 6.1.2014 19:13, Garrett Smith 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.

Wouldn't it be more suitable just to introduce additional selector which
will select ancestor nodes? Something similar to ancestor:: axis in
XPath. There will not be need for introducing new API then.

    Jirka

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