[whatwg] Desired Features for Web Applications

Dean Edwards dean at edwards.name
Wed Apr 20 11:30:17 PDT 2005


Brad Neuberg wrote:
> * Right now most people directly access an elements className property, 
> without realizing that they might be clobbering multi-classed elements 
> (i.e. something with class="class1 class2").  I usually have to create 
> wrapper methods to ensure that this doesn't happen, such as 
> xAddClass(target, className), xRemoveClass(target, className), and 
> xHasClass(target, className), but it would be much nicer if the 
> className property itself had better support for multi-classed 
> elements.  Some example possibilities of what this might look like:
>         * someElement.className.add("someNewClass")
>         * someElement.className.remove("SomeOldClass")
>         * someElement.className.hasClass("someClass")
> 

+1



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