[whatwg] getElementsByIdPart

[Ian Hickson]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Doron Rosenberg wrote:
>
> People keep asking about getElementsBy{Something}, so having a 
> getElementsByAttribute (I believe Mozilla's XBL impl has a similar 
> beast) would cover all those requests.

Sadly, not all the requests -- it wouldn't, for example, handle the 
request that started this thread.

In general I think the best solution would be either 
getElementsBySelector() (which would be the responsibility of the CSS 
working group, so requests for that should go to www-style at w3.org) or just 
using the NodeIterator interface from DOM2.

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