#141 CSS Selector support to query HtmlUnit's DOM

[Dzenan Becic]

I wanted to know if there are any plans in adding support for CSS selector type queries to the HtmlUnit's DOM next to current XPath support. Considering HtmlUnit seems to support jQuery, maybe adding support for CSS selectors through embedding jQuery into your DOM javascript model might be a good idea. Thoughts?

[Marc Guillemot]

Can you provide an example of the API that you would like to see in HtmlUnit?

[Ahmed Ashour]

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[Daniel Gredler]

Re-opening and assigning to myself, as I actually think that this would be a good thing to have.

[Tim Moore]

There's an emerging standard for this: http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-api/

[Gabriel]

Are still there any plans to implement this?

[Ahmed Ashour]

Have a look at

http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/apidocs/com/gargoylesoftware/htmlunit/html/HtmlPage.html#querySelector%28java.lang.String%29

[Gabriel]

But this is only for the HtmlPage. What about the DomNode class? You should be able to find child nodes by css from the current node. I am asking this because I am trying to fix an open issue on Webdriver/Selenium2 to enable CSS selectors for HtmlUnitDriver.

[Ahmed Ashour]

DomNode was having the mentioned methods, now they are public.