elisnow / engine

Powerful Javascript CSS Selector

#Engine Engine is a powerful, lightweight utility for selecting document elements using Javascript and CSS selectors.

Read the docs for more details.

##Change log ###Version 2

• CSS Level 4 Selectors!
  • :any-link
  • :local-link
  • :matches
  • :not
  • :nth-match
  • :nth-last-match
  • [attr="VaLuE" i]
• Extension selectors
  • [attr!=value]
  • [.prop=value] (property selector)
  • [attr="^va.{2}e$" r] (regular expression)
  • [attr={0}] (reference)
  • :{0} / :{wow} (ad hoc pseudo selectors)
  • :contains (ability to specify case-insensitivity/regexp)
  • :has
  • :referenced-by
• Complete code rewrite
  • Depends on querySelector and querySelectorAll, meaning it runs in IE8+ and other modern browsers
  • Dropped IE6-7 support
  • Dropped selector caching
  • The complete package weighs in at ~7KB minified (~3KB gzip)
  • More robust parser which closely follows the W3 CSS selector grammar
• New API methods
  • engine.addFilter
  • engine.addTransformer
  • engine.anb
  • engine.getSelector
  • engine.translate
• grunt.js script which allows modular builds
  • Devs can roll their own version without IE8 support or with only the selector support they need.
• Documentation
• Unit tests
• Modified MIT/X11 license