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#4345 closed feature (fixed)

Opened March 13, 2009 04:56AM UTC

Closed November 05, 2010 02:25AM UTC

Last modified March 14, 2012 01:53PM UTC

add isDescendantOf and isAncestorOf

Reported by: ap Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone:
Component: selector Version: 1.3.2
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

It would be handy to test if an element is a parent/child of another element. This is particularly useful when handling event bubbling to determine if an event has already been handled (this is the most reliable technique I have found to date that works in most modern browsers).

I expect it would look something like this:

jQuery('#blah').isAncestorOf(someElement) and jQuery('#blah').isDescendantOf(someElement)

Alternatively but less accurately it could be called isParentOf/isChildOf.

My existing JS implementation runs in logarithmic time and is as follows:

/** test if a is a descendant of b */

function isDescendantOf(a, b) {

return isAncestorOf(b, a);

}

/** test if a is an ancestor of b */

function isAncestorOf(a, b) {

// test if a is in b's parent chain

var o = b;

while (o) {

if (o === a)

return true;

o = o.parentNode;

}

return false;

}

Having this as part of jQuery would be convenient.

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Change History (4)

Changed March 14, 2009 12:42AM UTC by dmethvin comment:1

Related to #4101.

Changed March 14, 2009 02:04AM UTC by dmethvin comment:2

Changed October 29, 2010 05:12PM UTC by rwaldron comment:3

component: coreselector
keywords: isancestor isancestorof isdescendant isdescendantof ischild ischildof isparent isparentofneedsreview
milestone: 1.4
priority: minorlow
status: newopen

Bringing this back for review

Changed November 05, 2010 02:25AM UTC by dmethvin comment:4

keywords: needsreview
resolution: → fixed
status: openclosed