That's not a good example anyway. It's invalid because there can only be ONE unique ID per page.
_____ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Heimlich Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:32 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: SlickSpeed CSS Selector TestSuite On 6/12/07, Dan G. Switzer, II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Plus, what happens if you have: <div id="bam" /> <span id="bam" /> What if you need to retrieve the span tag? If it's checking #bam first, won't it only find the <div /> element? The DOM2 has this to say: getElementById introduced in DOM Level 2 Returns the Element whose ID is given by elementId. If no such element exists, returns null. Behavior is not defined if more than one element has this ID. Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-getElBId I would think that the first one the browser finds is selected, but I can't be certain of that as I've never actually tried to do this. -- Aaron Heimlich Web Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://aheimlich.freepgs.com
