Chapter 15. CSS selector engines
This chapter covers
- The current status of browser selector support
- Strategies for selector engine construction
- Using the W3C API
- Some info on XPath
- Building a DOM selector engine
The good news is that we, as web development professionals, are well into the age in which the W3C Selectors API exists in all modern browsers. This API (which has two levels: Level 1 and Level 2) provides us with the querySelectorAll() and querySelector() methods, along with other goodies that we can use in our applications to write very fast DOM traversals in relatively cross-browser ways.
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Want more info on this API? See the W3C pages for Level 1 (www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/) and Level 2 (www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api2/ ...
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