http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4072
I believe John liked it to when I mentioned it in the mailing list. It was one of those things on my list of things missing in jQuery compared to the bad local framework I wrote for an app at work. ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] mike.helgeson wrote: > I propose adding a second argument to the "closest" method that will > act as the end point for searching up the document tree. It can behave > just like the "context" argument in the jQuery mother function. It > will optimize the performance of a common pattern I have seen in my > own code since the addition o this method. > > $("table").bind("click",function( event ){ > var $td = $( event.target ).closest("td", this ); > }); > > Because I bound the handler to "table" I do not want to search an > higher than that element for selector matches. Furthermore, if there > was a selector match outside of the containing element, it could > potentially and accidentally be matched. > > http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4945 > > Any thoughts? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
