[whatwg] getElementsByIdPart

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Sat Aug 21 12:17:22 PDT 2004


On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Ben Meadowcroft wrote:
> 
> How about adding something more general like getElementsBySelector and 
> use CSS selectors syntax? If we used CSS3 syntax (at candidate rec 
> stage) then you can use substring matches in your selection.

I expect the CSS working group will do that at some point.

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