[whatwg] getElementsByCSSSelector

Jim Ley jim.ley at gmail.com
Sat Jan 14 07:51:34 PST 2006


On 1/14/06, Karoly Negyesi <karoly at negyesi.net> wrote:
> A getElementsByCSSSelector IMO would be great and introduces minimal plus
> burden on browsers -- they have CSS selector code anyways.
>
> It's very unfriendly that I can do magic with CSS2/3 selectors and then I
> need to translate them myself if I want to change them on-the-fly.

Why would you want to change the content of all elements that matched
a particular selector?

Could you explain some use cases?

Jim.



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