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This fork exists solely to prevent the parser from infinitely looping when an invalid expression is parsed such as:
slick.parse('()')
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Slick is a standalone selector engine that is totally slick. Slick is split in 2 components: the Finder and the Parser. The Finder's job is to find nodes on a webpage, the Parser's job is to create a javascript object representation of any css selector.
Slick allows you to:
Find nodes in the DOM
search context for selectorSearch this context for any nodes that match this selector.
Expects:
Returns: append argument or Array of 0 or more nodes
slick.search("#foo > bar.baz") → [<bar>, <bar>, <bar>]
slick.search("li > a", [<ol>, <ul>]) → [<a>, <a>, <a>]
slick.search("#foo > bar.baz", document, []) → [<bar>, <bar>, <bar>]
find first in context with selector or nullFind the first node in document that matches selector or null if none are found.
Expects:
Returns: Element or null
slick.find("#foo > bar.baz") → <bar>
slick.find("#does-not-exist", node) → null
matches selector?Does this node match this selector?
Expects:
Returns: true or false
slick.matches(<div class=rocks>, "div.rocks") → true
slick.matches(<div class=lame>, "div.rocks") → false
slick.matches(<div class=lame>, <div class=rocks>) → false
contains node?Does this context contain this node? Is the context a parent of this node?
Expects:
Returns: true or false
slick.contains(<ul>, <li>) → true
slick.contains(<body>, <html>) → false
Parse a CSS selector string into a JavaScript object
parse selector into objectParse a CSS Selector String into a Selector Object.
Expects: String
Returns: SelectorObject
slick.parse("#foo > bar.baz") → SelectorObject
#foo > bar.baz[[
{ "combinator":" ", "tag":"*", "id":"foo" },
{ "combinator":">", "tag":"bar", "classList": ["baz"], "classes": [{"value":"baz", "match": RegExp }]}
]]
h1, h2, ul > li, .things[
[{ "combinator":" ", "tag": "h1" }],
[{ "combinator":" ", "tag": "h2" }],
[{ "combinator":" ", "tag": "ul" }, { "combinator": ">", "tag": "li" }],
[{ "combinator":" ", "tag": "*", "classList": ["things"], "classes": [{"value": "things", "match": RegExp }] }]
]
FAQs
Standalone CSS Selector Finder and Parser.
The npm package atom-slick receives a total of 270 weekly downloads. As such, atom-slick popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that atom-slick demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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