Well specifically context is used in .live(). A .live() event handler
will be bound to the context. However, the .closest() method will look
beyond the context.
The context should limit the actions of jQuery to within the context's children.
--
Brandon Aaron
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Jörn
Zaefferer<joern.zaeffe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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