From 55b658ac577d04d19ad2ee2b463681dc3d630642 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Stephenson <sam@37signals.com>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 01:44:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] prototype: Event.findElement now uses Element#up (and as a
 result can take a CSS selector instead of just a tag name).

---
 CHANGELOG    |  2 ++
 src/event.js | 10 ++--------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index da7662b..7dc1131 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Event.findElement now uses Element#up (and as a result can take a CSS selector instead of just a tag name).  [Tobie Langel]
+
 * Minor cleanup of the position methods  [sam]
 
 * Fix Element#clonePosition to call viewportOffset.  Closes #8372.  [graemenelson, Christophe Porteneuve] 
diff --git a/src/event.js b/src/event.js
index 4bdfc2b..499a239 100644
--- a/src/event.js
+++ b/src/event.js
@@ -46,14 +46,8 @@ Object.extend(Event, {
     }
   },
 
-  // find the first node with the given tagName, starting from the
-  // node the event was triggered on; traverses the DOM upwards
-  findElement: function(event, tagName) {
-    var element = Event.element(event);
-    while (element.parentNode && (!element.tagName ||
-        (element.tagName.toUpperCase() != tagName.toUpperCase())))
-      element = element.parentNode;
-    return element;
+  findElement: function(event, expression) {
+    return Event.element(event).up(expression);
   },
 
   observers: false,