[whatwg] getElementsByIdPart

Jim Ley jim.ley at gmail.com
Sun Aug 22 13:46:16 PDT 2004


On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:03:03 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> You could loop over all the elements and make their class attributes equal
> their ID attributes with underscores changed to spaces quite easily, which
> would then allow you to use the method mentioned above, as well as letting
> you use CSS and other class-based mechanisms.

not really, since class is not a single thing, so it won't map cleanly to ID.
 
> Does this help, or do you really think a getElementByIdPart() method
> would be better? 

DOM 3 XPath (suitably mangled for HTML) would be much better than
inventing lots of extra DOM methods.  especially ones that rely on
regexp matching to degrade in older UA's.

Jim.



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