I think the "standards mode" requirement is only on some parts of
MooTools. For example Accordian
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-color
(so I just always use standards mode just to be sure).
Regarding another library, I don't actually have any experience of any
other library, so someone else should maybe answer... I hear jQuery is
popular though.
For the I have thought of a workaround, using the 'filter' function:
var fontElements = $$("font").filter(function(el) {
return (el.getProperty('color').test('#a0a0a0'));
});
alert($$(fontElements));
It's not that neat, but it seems to work.
Michal.
On Dec 15, 9:53 am, "gabriel munteanu" <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi, i am using mootools here on html pages that another program finds
> on the net.
> i have no control over the html source. i take it as it comes.
> @Michal: i could find more bad html pages, and mootools could not help
> me there. do you know any other js library that is more "loose" ?
> one that can select nodes even on bad html?
>
> thanks in advance
> jgabios
>
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:44 PM, rpflo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm with Michal.
>
> > Why not add a css class to the elements you wan "tobeselected" and
> > that class has the font color you want? Then it's easy and current:
>
> > <span class="someClass">tobeselected</span>
>
> > alert($$('.someClass'))
>
> > On Dec 13, 7:37 am, Michal <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> I think there is an issue with "#" in the attribute selector. If you
> >> remove the "#" in the font color attribute, then it seems to work fine
> >> (at least in Safari). This might be a bug, I'm not sure.
>
> >> *However* there are a number of issues that I would just like to
> >> mention
>
> >> - Font tag is deprecated, and I think really shouldn't be used
> >> nowadays (but maybe if you're working with some legacy site...)
> >> - Even though the script is at the bottom of the body tab, maybe it
> >> should be encompassed in a 'domready' listener? I'm never sure exactly
> >> when it is ok to be accessing the DOM before that event fires.
> >> - I imagine these things are omitted as it is a quick test page, but
> >> some things in MooTools do require the page to be in standards mode,
> >> so it would need a DOCTYPE, and I also notice that the bottom "script"
> >> tag doesn't have an explicit type, which might throw some browsers...?
> >> I'm not too sure.
>
> >> Michal.
>
> >> On Dec 13, 2:00 pm, "gabriel munteanu" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> > hi, i have setup an example
> >> > here:http://www.e-forum.ro/mootoolex/example.html
> >> > what i want, is to show the text "tobeselected" from inside the font
> >> > tag with alert().
> >> > i tried font[color=#a0a0a0] , font[color=#a0a0a0] , font[color=a0a0a0]
> >> > , nothing works.
> >> > can someone please help me on this one?
>
> >> > thanks in advance
> >> > jgabios
