I tried for 5 minutes but couldn't wrap my head around that :D
Why do you need to 'pretend the elements are children of this'? What
are you trying to achieve?
- ricardo
On Nov 28, 2:04 pm, Mark Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With the follow style of markup:
>
> <div id="my-combo" role="combobox" aria-owns="my-list another-thing">
> </div>
>
> <div id="my-list" role="list">
> </div>
>
> I need to find the first element of type [role=list], in either the
> descendants
> of #my-combo, or the elements (and descendants) identified in aria-
> owns.
>
> I was think of creating a plugin to make this easier:
>
> $('#my-combo').owns('[role=list]:first');
>
> $.fn.owns = function(selector) {
> // Gather all the id's from aria-owns attrs, appending '#' to each,
> and separate with ','
> var include = $(this).filter('[aria-owns]').map(function() {
> return this.getAttribute('aria-owns').replace(/([^\s]+)/g, '#
> $1').replace(/\s+/g,',');
> });
>
> if (include.length) {
> // Find all the referenced elements
> var owned = $(Array.prototype.join.call(include,','));
>
> // HELP NEEDED HERE!
> // Here I need to pretend that the 'owned' elements are also
> children of 'this'
> // FakeElement(owned + this.children()).find(selector)
> // or
> // owned.add(this.children()).findIncSelf(selector)
> } else {
> return this.find(selector);
> }
>
> };
>
> I'm puzzled as to how to combine the owned elements and the
> descendants of the
> context elements, and find the using the requested selector.
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
> -Mark
