> There are two contrary statements in your proposal.
>
> ":root" matches the root element (i.e. the "test" element in your
> example)
>
> All simple selectors has to match a descendant of the element on which
>
> .querySelectorAll was called.
>
> Clearly the "test" node isn't a descendant of itself, so the ":root"
> part couldn't match anything.
That is correct - :root would be overloaded in this case (or simply called
something else - like :scope). Isn't this how the combinator-leading selectors
were proposed to work?
// Finding all child, div, elements
.querySelectorAll(":scope > div")
Looking through the archives it appears as if that's what Maciej proposed. If
that's not the case - and the :root/:scope points back to the document root (?)
then please disregard all of this, as it's no longer useful.
--John
