- From: Oriol Brufau via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 19:56:44 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
The example can be simplified to `document.querySelector('[n');`
As expected, the spec says it should fail:
1. [`querySelector`](https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-parentnode-queryselector) does a [scope-match a selectors string](https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-parentnode-queryselector).
2. [Scope-match a selectors string](https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-parentnode-queryselector) [parses a selector](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#parse-a-selector).
3. [Parse a selector](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#parse-a-selector) parses as a [`<selector-list>`](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#typedef-selector-list).
4. A `[` in a [`<selector-list>`](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#typedef-selector-list) begins an [`<attribute-selector>`](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#typedef-attribute-selector), which must be closed with `]`.
5. Therefore the string does not match the grammar, and [parse a selector](https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#parse-a-selector) returns failure.
6. Therefore [scope-match a selectors string](https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#scope-match-a-selectors-string) throws a "SyntaxError" DOMException.
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