Sizzle is a JavaScript CSS selector engine.
Sizzle is a pure-JavaScript CSS selector engine. CSS 3 selectors are supported, plus an additional set of custom selectors.
Resources
- Sizzle homepage
- Sizzle repository on GitHub.
- Sizzle Documentation
Questions tagged [sizzle]
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Wildcards in jQuery selectors
I'm trying to use a wildcard to get the id of all the elements whose id begin with "jander". I tried $('#jander*'), $('#jander%') but it doesn't work..
I know I can use classes of the elements to solve it, but it is also possible using…
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What's the use of Array.prototype.slice.call(array, 0)?
I was just browsing Sizzle's source code and I came across this line of code:
array = Array.prototype.slice.call( array, 0 );
I looked up what the function is, but I came to the conclusion that it just returns all elements of the array starting…
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How is the jQuery selector $('#foo a') evaluated?
As a example of jQuery code (https://coderwall.com/p/7uchvg), I read that the expression $('#foo a'); behaves like this:
Find every a in the page and then filter a inside #foo.
And it does not look efficient.
Is that correct? And if yes, how…
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jQuery Optimization/Best Practices
Ok saddle up cowboys, because this is going to be a long one. I have been spending the morning going through some of my old code and I'm left wondering about best practices and optimzation. In order to avoid a ride down subjective lane I'll just…
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Dynamic Adsense Insertion With JavaScript
I can't believe how hard this is to find, but even in the Google developer docs I can't find it. I need to be able to dynamically, only with JavaScript insert adsense. I also looked on StackOverflow and some others have asked this but no response.…
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Why do functional pseudos such as :not() and :has() allow quoted arguments?
Apparently, as I've discovered while commenting on another answer, jQuery (rather its underlying selector engine Sizzle) lets you quote the argument to the :not() selector as well as the :has() selector. To…
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How and what benefit can I take by including Sizzle.js along with jquery1.4.2?
latest jquery 1.4.2 downloaded from jquery.com comes with Sizzle.js also.
How and what benefit can I take from included Sizzle.js?
Is Sizzle.js a standalone library?
Why it's included inside jquery library, for what purpose?
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* jQuery…
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decoupling jquery, sizzle?
Does anyone have experience / insight re: decoupling jquery / sizzle?
this is for general interest, but here's the scenario that triggered my question:
..i already have jquery in the project. wanted to try out http://ecsstender.org/, which…
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Is it possible to create custom jQuery selectors that navigate ancestors? e.g. a :closest or :parents selector
I write a lot of jQuery plugins and have custom jQuery selectors I use all the time like :focusable and :closeto to provide commonly used filters.
e.g. :focusable looks like this
jQuery.extend(jQuery.expr[':'], {
focusable: function (el, index,…
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How to get a specific jQuery item from a list of items?
I have this:
- first
- second
- third
- fourth
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Is there a Sizzle/jQuery selectors implementation in C#?
I need to be able to simply specify elements from html in my C# application. I would just use Linq to Sql but this needs to be configurable/serializable to a string. I could of course use XPath but something like Sizzle at this point is just so much…
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jQuery Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [name=Basics.Gender]
I am upgrading from jQuery 1.4.4 to jQuery 1.7.2 and I get a syntax error. I think its due to the '.' in the Basics.Gender part of the selector.
$('[name=Basics.Gender]')
Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix…
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How to select an element which doesn't have a specific class name, using jQuery?
How could a Commando, like myself, select an element witch does not have a class named "active", using the infamous and powerful jQuery Sizzle CSS and everything else - Selector?
I've tried with:
$('a[class!="active"]').etc();
But it gives no…
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jQuery Selectors, efficiency
I have been reading more lately about the efficiency of the different selector engines. I know that jQuery uses the Sizzle engine and this blog post about some jQuery stuff mentioned that the Sizzle engine will break apart your selector into an…
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Get iframe contents with a jquery selector
Is there anyway to access an iframe's contents via a selector? Something like this:
$("iframe::contents .my-foo")
I'm constantly accessing an iframe's contents for a project I'm currently working on and $("iframe").contents().find(".my-foo") is…
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