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— forked from Daniel-Hug/delegate-event.js
Vanilla JS equivalent of jQuery's .live(): use event delegation to handle events whose target matches a selector, closest(): get nearest parent element matching selector
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| /** | |
| * get nearest parent element matching selector | |
| * Will return "false" if "el" is "null" to prevent errors popping up in the console | |
| */ | |
| var closest = (function() { | |
| var el = HTMLElement.prototype; | |
| var matches = el.matches || el.webkitMatchesSelector || el.mozMatchesSelector || el.msMatchesSelector; | |
| return function closest(el, selector) { | |
| return el === null ? false : matches.call(el, selector) ? el : closest(el.parentElement, selector); |