diff --git a/components/script/dom/element.rs b/components/script/dom/element.rs
index f0d078fbaf1..1be58932305 100644
--- a/components/script/dom/element.rs
+++ b/components/script/dom/element.rs
@@ -1461,6 +1461,11 @@ impl ElementMethods for Element {
         }
     }
 
+    // https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-element-webkitmatchesselector
+    fn WebkitMatchesSelector(&self, selectors: DOMString) -> Fallible<bool> {
+        self.Matches(selectors)
+    }
+
     // https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-element-closest
     fn Closest(&self, selectors: DOMString) -> Fallible<Option<Root<Element>>> {
         match parse_author_origin_selector_list_from_str(&selectors) {
diff --git a/components/script/dom/webidls/Element.webidl b/components/script/dom/webidls/Element.webidl
index b5b35f8e802..2e3deb6adb0 100644
--- a/components/script/dom/webidls/Element.webidl
+++ b/components/script/dom/webidls/Element.webidl
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ interface Element : Node {
 
   [Pure, Throws]
   boolean matches(DOMString selectors);
+  [Pure, Throws]
+  boolean webkitMatchesSelector(DOMString selectors);
 
   HTMLCollection getElementsByTagName(DOMString localName);
   HTMLCollection getElementsByTagNameNS(DOMString? namespace, DOMString localName);