well i figured thats what the selectors are for am suprised no one mentioned it eairler as i have seen this thread goon for a while now
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of gabriel munteanu Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2008 1:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: selecting a FONT tag with a COLOR property font[color$=a0a0a0] worked, thanks Steve. though i will try the more general approach for other bad html as Michal said. thank you all again jgabios On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Steve Onnis <[email protected]> wrote: > > cant you use > > font[color$=a0a0a0] > > Steve > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michal > Sent: Monday, 15 December 2008 10:04 PM > To: MooTools Users > Subject: Re: selecting a FONT tag with a COLOR property > > > I have also just found > http://mootools.lighthouseapp.com/projects/2706/tickets/226 > : having "#" in a selector appears to result in a known bug. > > Michal. > > On Dec 15, 10:38 am, Michal <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think the "standards mode" requirement is only on some parts of >> MooTools. For example > Accordianhttp://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-color >> (so I just always use standards mode just to be sure). >> >> Regarding another library, I don't actually have any experience of any >> other library, so someone else should maybe answer... I hear jQuery is >> popular though. >> >> For the I have thought of a workaround, using the 'filter' function: >> >> var fontElements = $$("font").filter(function(el) { >> return (el.getProperty('color').test('#a0a0a0'));}); >> >> alert($$(fontElements)); >> >> It's not that neat, but it seems to work. >> >> Michal. >> >> On Dec 15, 9:53 am, "gabriel munteanu" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > hi, i am using mootools here on html pages that another program finds >> > on the net. >> > i have no control over the html source. i take it as it comes. >> > @Michal: i could find more bad html pages, and mootools could not help >> > me there. do you know any other js library that is more "loose" ? >> > one that can select nodes even on bad html? >> >> > thanks in advance >> > jgabios >> >> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:44 PM, rpflo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > I'm with Michal. >> >> > > Why not add a css class to the elements you wan "tobeselected" and >> > > that class has the font color you want? Then it's easy and current: >> >> > > <span class="someClass">tobeselected</span> >> >> > > alert($$('.someClass')) >> >> > > On Dec 13, 7:37 am, Michal <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> Hi, >> >> > >> I think there is an issue with "#" in the attribute selector. If you >> > >> remove the "#" in the font color attribute, then it seems to work > fine >> > >> (at least in Safari). This might be a bug, I'm not sure. >> >> > >> *However* there are a number of issues that I would just like to >> > >> mention >> >> > >> - Font tag is deprecated, and I think really shouldn't be used >> > >> nowadays (but maybe if you're working with some legacy site...) >> > >> - Even though the script is at the bottom of the body tab, maybe it >> > >> should be encompassed in a 'domready' listener? I'm never sure > exactly >> > >> when it is ok to be accessing the DOM before that event fires. >> > >> - I imagine these things are omitted as it is a quick test page, but >> > >> some things in MooTools do require the page to be in standards mode, >> > >> so it would need a DOCTYPE, and I also notice that the bottom > "script" >> > >> tag doesn't have an explicit type, which might throw some > browsers...? >> > >> I'm not too sure. >> >> > >> Michal. >> >> > >> On Dec 13, 2:00 pm, "gabriel munteanu" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > hi, i have setup an example > here:http://www.e-forum.ro/mootoolex/example.html >> > >> > what i want, is to show the text "tobeselected" from inside the > font >> > >> > tag with alert(). >> > >> > i tried font[color=#a0a0a0] , font[color=#a0a0a0] , > font[color=a0a0a0] >> > >> > , nothing works. >> > >> > can someone please help me on this one? >> >> > >> > thanks in advance >> > >> > jgabios > >
