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Mutation Observers

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 18)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Provides notifications when DOM nodes are rearranged or modified.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#mutation-observers
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: http://wkbug.com/68729

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MutationObserver

Samples: http://simpl.info/mutationobserver/

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