Not to mention it would either be broken, or be a complete hack. $(selector, context); is actually an alias for $(context).find(selector); And this.context isn't what was passed to context.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name] Jörn Zaefferer wrote: > Working or not, having public API methods rely on the context-property > doesn't seem like a great idea - is that the case anywhere else? > > Jörn > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:32 PM, mike.helgeson<mike.helge...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> That makes a lot of sense, except it does not work. The "context" >> property of the jquery instance is always equal to the first element >> when passing in DOM nodes. Unless I am mistaken. >> >> On Jul 22, 4:33 pm, Brandon Aaron <brandon.aa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I think it should just stop at the "context" of the jQuery object. So >>> you'd do this instead: >>> >>> $("table").bind("click", function( event ) { >>> var $td = $(event.target, this).closest("td"); >>> >>> }); >>> >>> -- >>> Brandon Aaron >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:07 PM, mike.helgeson<mike.helge...@gmail.com> >>> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
