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
