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Tag: standards

Closest ancestor matching selector using native DOM?

Is anybody working on a jQuery.closest() equivalent in the DOM api? Looks like the Selectors Level 2 draft adds matches() equivalent to jQuery.is(), so native closest should be much easier to write. Has adding closest() to Selectors come up? Answer See the element.closest() documentation. Implementing such function with Element.matches() seems not optimal in terms of performance, cause apparently matches() will

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