That makes a lot of sense, except it does not work. The "context"
property of the jquery instance is always equal to the first element
when passing in DOM nodes. Unless I am mistaken.
On Jul 22, 4:33 pm, Brandon Aaron <brandon.aa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it should just stop at the "context" of the jQuery object. So
> you'd do this instead:
>
> $("table").bind("click", function( event ) {
> var $td = $(event.target, this).closest("td");
>
> });
>
> --
> Brandon Aaron
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:07 PM, mike.helgeson<mike.helge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I propose adding a second argument to the "closest" method that will
> > act as the end point for searching up the document tree. It can behave
> > just like the "context" argument in the jQuery mother function. It
> > will optimize the performance of a common pattern I have seen in my
> > own code since the addition o this method.
>
> > $("table").bind("click",function( event ){
> > var $td = $( event.target ).closest("td", this );
> > });
>
> > Because I bound the handler to "table" I do not want to search an
> > higher than that element for selector matches. Furthermore, if there
> > was a selector match outside of the containing element, it could
> > potentially and accidentally be matched.
>
> >http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4945
>
> > Any thoughts?
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