I have no specific use case in mind for that particular example. I was
thinking of the second "closest" argument would act like a break
statement rather than a search within context.

Still, If the context is used to limit the traversal of the closest
loop, how would you set the context of raw DOM nodes such that $
( event.target ).closest(".foo"); was still useful?



On Jul 23, 1:45 pm, John Resig <jere...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > In what case would you want to find the closest() match but outside of a
> > > context?
>
> > $( this ).closest(".foo");
>
> > currently $( this ).context is equal to "this"
>
> Sorry, you misunderstand me - I meant that with your proposed case:
> $(DOMEelement).closest("body", DOMElementContext); returns $("body");
>
> You were advocating for the context to be completely outside of the parent
> element chain. I was wondering what use case that was implying.
>
> --John
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to