Closed Bug 552306 Opened 14 years ago Closed 14 years ago

add getElementsByAttribute to any Element node not just XulElement nodes

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: georg, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9pre) Gecko/20100313 SeaMonkey/2.0.4pre
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On XulElement nodes there is a very useful method called getElementsByAttribute, which I would like to use on any Element node independent of whether being member of a XUL document or not.

If I parse xml files using XMLSerializer I would like to have this method on any Element, because I very often search for elements identified by attributes.

Reproducible: Always
You can already use document.querySelectorAll('[attr="value"]') and document.querySelectorAll('[attr]'). We really shouldn't expose proprietary extensions if there is a standardized alternative.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Component: DOM → DOM: Core & HTML
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