This link may be of assistance: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-sXBL-20040901/
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Adele Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Giri, > WebKit creates shadow nodes for many of the form controls. As you noticed, > these nodes are not visible from the DOM, but the renderers for those nodes > can be traversed in the render tree. For example, a text field or text area > has a shadow DOM that contains all the text inside the control. A file > upload control has a shadow nodes for the "choose file" button. This is > just a way for WebKit to build elements using HTML without exposing the > internal details to web content. > - Adele > On Oct 23, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Giri Rao wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running into a bit of a problem, let me try and explain the best I can: > > I am traversing RenderObject tree in webkit. I notice that there are > certain nodes (accessed using render_object->node()) which are shadow nodes > (node->isShadow() returns true). I note down the address of one such node, > lets say the address is 100. The node name of this node is "DIV" > > Now, I traverse the dom tree using Node, for each node I note down the > node's address. I am noticing that I am not seeing any nodes while > traversing the dom tree whose address is 100. > > So two questions: > 1. Why would webkit create a node which is not part of the dom tree? > 2. What are shadow nodes? > > Any insight is appreciated. > > Thanks > Giri _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > -- Cheers! Rick _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
