On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Zirak A <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently, a DocumentFragment only inherits from Node, and thus loses methods
> like getElementById. However, the Selector API
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/) defines querySelector and
> querySelectorAll on document fragments.
> My proposal is to add getElementById (which makes sense, as the document
> fragment is a root node), getElementsByTagName (and its namespace-sensitive
> version), getElementsByClassName and getElementsByName - in short, all of the
> general selection methods available on the Document.
Given that you have querySelector, why would you want the other
functions? getElementById("foo") is just querySelector("#foo"),
getElementsByTagName("foo") is just querySelectorAll("foo"), etc.
~TJ
