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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by nicoburns on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:51AM (#25774869)
FYI the reason it's not an array is because if you store a reference to it, it will stay up to date as and when the DOM changes.
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Re:You might not need jQuery (2014) by jarek-foksa on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:12AM (#25775897)
The NodeList returned by querySelectorAll() is not live. There is really no reason for it to return a NodeList other than backward compatibility.
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