[whatwg] document.head

Sun Sep 20 13:24:42 PDT 2009

On Sep 20, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Joseph Pecoraro wrote:

> On Sep 20, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Michael A. Puls II wrote:
>> I think it'd be cool to have to complement document.documentElement  
>> and document.body.
>
> On Sep 20, 2009, at 4: 00PM, Juriy Zaytsev wrote:
>> Surely better than abominable – `document.getElementsByTagName 
>> ('head')[0]` :)
>
> I agree. Unfortunately that is the most popular method I've seen.   
> There are better solutions, but they haven't caught on.  I think a  
> smarter idea would be to look at the children of the <html>  
> element.  Something like this almost always works:
>
>  var head = document.documentElement.firstChild

Yep, I've seen that too. That's slightly better (i.e. less verbose)  
than `gEBTN` -based approach (although less descriptive too).

Speaking of `document.head`, I think Mootools does exactly that.

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