[whatwg] Proposal: Adding methods like getElementById and getElementsByTagName to DocumentFragments

[Simon Pieters]

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 13:22:34 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at annevk.nl>  
wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky at mit.edu> wrote:
>> In that case I think we need to add a function to the platform that
>> CSS-escapes a string.
>
> Maybe a thing for window.CSS? Simon?
>
> Such a function already exists in the wild btw:  
> http://mothereff.in/css-escapes

So the use case is getting an element by id with an "untrusted" id as  
input, in an element or document fragment as opposed to the document?

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software