Thanks Rick. Giri
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This link may be of assistance: > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-sXBL-20040901/ > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Adele Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Giri, > > WebKit creates shadow nodes for many of the form controls. As you > noticed, > > these nodes are not visible from the DOM, but the renderers for those > nodes > > can be traversed in the render tree. For example, a text field or text > area > > has a shadow DOM that contains all the text inside the control. A file > > upload control has a shadow nodes for the "choose file" button. This > is > > just a way for WebKit to build elements using HTML without exposing the > > internal details to web content. > > - Adele > > On Oct 23, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Giri Rao wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am running into a bit of a problem, let me try and explain the best I > can: > > > > I am traversing RenderObject tree in webkit. I notice that there are > > certain nodes (accessed using render_object->node()) which are shadow > nodes > > (node->isShadow() returns true). I note down the address of one such > node, > > lets say the address is 100. The node name of this node is "DIV" > > > > Now, I traverse the dom tree using Node, for each node I note down the > > node's address. I am noticing that I am not seeing any nodes while > > traversing the dom tree whose address is 100. > > > > So two questions: > > 1. Why would webkit create a node which is not part of the dom tree? > > 2. What are shadow nodes? > > > > Any insight is appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > Giri _______________________________________________ > > webkit-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > webkit-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > > > > > > > -- > Cheers! > Rick >
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