Working or not, having public API methods rely on the context-property
doesn't seem like a great idea - is that the case anywhere else?
Jörn
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM, mike.helgeson<mike.helge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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