Re: Looking a helper function which searches an element with a specified attribute name and value

Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:57:14 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.dom
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/28/10 2:47 AM, meryl wrote:
> I have a pointer of nsIDOMDocument (that is the DOM of a rendered
> page), when I try to get the nsIDOMXULDocument so that I can use that
> getElementsByAttribute() method, it returns NULL.

Then your document is not a XUL document and you can't use 
getElementsByAttribute.

Come to think of which... is there a reason querySelector or 
querySelectorAll can't do what you want?

-Boris