1494470 - document.elementFromPoint got erroneously merged into DocumentOrShadowRoot.elementFromPoint

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: API: Miscellaneous, enhancement, P1)

Description

[JoeBlevins_github]

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: Correction
     Gecko Version: unspecified
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:: Details

There's two different APIs, there's the DocumentOrShadowRoot's elementFromPoint and there's the document's elementFromPoint. You've merged the two into one article, and then slapped the word "Experimental" and "Obsolete" all over the place, which is all well and good for DocumentOrShadowRoot but has nothing to do with a feature which has existed well before that was even a draft. Your own search and external sites are still linking to the now-not-existing old article e.g.:     

https://caniuse.com/#feat=element-from-point (See resources MDN Web Docs - elementFromPoint)

I cannot revert the edit since the old article simply doesn't exist. It has been entirely replaced by the the DocumentOrShadowRoot's version of the same.

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

The Document.elementFromPoint property has actually moved to the DocumentOrShadoRoot mixin, which defines methods and properties that are available both on Document and ShadowRoot objects. So this move is actually correct. However, the page content was definitely confusing. I've made a number of changes that I hope will help.

We also recognize that this system of documenting mixins the way we do can be confusing. We are planning to make changes to clarify this, but we need to finish some other tasks first.