[whatwg] classList should perhaps move from HTMLElement to Element

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Tue Nov 23 11:08:11 PST 2010


On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:06:02 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
> On 11/23/10 2:02 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> So if I set Element.className on an element that is not in a namespace
>> and has no attributes. Its attributes collection remains empty or
>> something?
>
> Hmm.  I would think this should throw (since this won't do what you  
> expect; e.g. CSS selectors and getElemetsByClassName won't start  
> matching it).

I would much rather just make it work. Otherwise moving it to Element does  
not really seem right.


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Anne van Kesteren
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