diff --git a/components/script/dom/element.rs b/components/script/dom/element.rs
index a87e561f912..32e9fc3545e 100644
--- a/components/script/dom/element.rs
+++ b/components/script/dom/element.rs
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ use style::CaseSensitivityExt;
 use style::applicable_declarations::ApplicableDeclarationBlock;
 use style::attr::{AttrValue, LengthOrPercentageOrAuto};
 use style::context::QuirksMode;
+use style::dom_apis;
 use style::element_state::*;
 use style::invalidation::element::restyle_hints::RESTYLE_SELF;
 use style::properties::{Importance, PropertyDeclaration, PropertyDeclarationBlock, parse_style_attribute};
@@ -2197,18 +2198,16 @@ impl ElementMethods for Element {
 
     // https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-element-matches
     fn Matches(&self, selectors: DOMString) -> Fallible<bool> {
-        match SelectorParser::parse_author_origin_no_namespace(&selectors) {
-            Err(_) => Err(Error::Syntax),
-            Ok(selectors) => {
-                let quirks_mode = document_from_node(self).quirks_mode();
-                let root = DomRoot::from_ref(self);
-                // FIXME(bholley): Consider an nth-index cache here.
-                let mut ctx = MatchingContext::new(MatchingMode::Normal, None, None,
-                                                   quirks_mode);
-                ctx.scope_element = Some(root.opaque());
-                Ok(matches_selector_list(&selectors, &root, &mut ctx))
-            }
-        }
+        let selectors =
+            match SelectorParser::parse_author_origin_no_namespace(&selectors) {
+                Err(_) => return Err(Error::Syntax),
+                Ok(selectors) => selectors,
+            };
+
+        let quirks_mode = document_from_node(self).quirks_mode();
+        let element = DomRoot::from_ref(self);
+
+        Ok(dom_apis::element_matches(&element, &selectors, quirks_mode))
     }
 
     // https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-element-webkitmatchesselector
diff --git a/components/style/dom_apis.rs b/components/style/dom_apis.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..056f5dd2a12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components/style/dom_apis.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+//! Generic implementations of some DOM APIs so they can be shared between Servo
+//! and Gecko.
+
+use context::QuirksMode;
+use selectors::{Element, SelectorList};
+use selectors::matching::{self, MatchingContext, MatchingMode};
+
+/// https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-element-matches
+pub fn element_matches<E>(
+    element: &E,
+    selector_list: &SelectorList<E::Impl>,
+    quirks_mode: QuirksMode,
+) -> bool
+where
+    E: Element,
+{
+    let mut context = MatchingContext::new(
+        MatchingMode::Normal,
+        None,
+        None,
+        quirks_mode,
+    );
+    context.scope_element = Some(element.opaque());
+    matching::matches_selector_list(selector_list, element, &mut context)
+}
diff --git a/components/style/lib.rs b/components/style/lib.rs
index 997efddb026..b4b40cf56db 100644
--- a/components/style/lib.rs
+++ b/components/style/lib.rs
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ pub mod counter_style;
 pub mod custom_properties;
 pub mod data;
 pub mod dom;
+pub mod dom_apis;
 pub mod driver;
 pub mod element_state;
 #[cfg(feature = "servo")] mod encoding_support;
diff --git a/ports/geckolib/glue.rs b/ports/geckolib/glue.rs
index f7a1357549b..53d65991e70 100644
--- a/ports/geckolib/glue.rs
+++ b/ports/geckolib/glue.rs
@@ -1556,18 +1556,15 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn Servo_SelectorList_Matches(
     selectors: RawServoSelectorListBorrowed,
 ) -> bool {
     use std::borrow::Borrow;
+    use style::dom_apis;
 
     let element = GeckoElement(element);
-    let mut context = MatchingContext::new(
-        MatchingMode::Normal,
-        None,
-        None,
-        element.owner_document_quirks_mode(),
-    );
-    context.scope_element = Some(element.opaque());
-
     let selectors = ::selectors::SelectorList::from_ffi(selectors).borrow();
-    selectors::matching::matches_selector_list(&selectors, &element, &mut context)
+    dom_apis::element_matches(
+        &element,
+        &selectors,
+        element.owner_document_quirks_mode(),
+    )
 }
 
 #[no_mangle]