[whatwg] DOMTokenList methods would be more useful with a space separated token list

Aryeh Gregor ayg at aryeh.name
Fri Oct 28 09:42:15 PDT 2011


On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Mike Taylor
<michaelaarontaylor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would prefer if it returned the DOMTokenList, to enable chaining like:
>
>   foo.toggle('bar baz').remove('bat');
>
> Same for the rest of the DOMTokenList methods, as well.
>
>   foo.add('bar').remove('baz');
>
> See also https://github.com/jquery/standards/issues/13 for relevant
> discussion.

This is not how existing DOM methods tend to behave, but in general I
support adding it in more places, because it's very useful for methods
that mutate the object they're called on.



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