Comments on: A Better Way to use Elements

By: gonchuki

gonchuki — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:05:50 +0000

for consistency and simplicity I usually prefer to use document.id and document.getElements instead of $ and $$. I certainly grew tired of the $ notation over the years.

By: 131

131 — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:42:28 +0000

I used to have a syntax using

var Box = new Class({ Declare : ['Box'] ..., initialize:function(el){this.anchor = el }. .. })

$.Box = function(box){ return box.anchor; }

With the following mutator Class.Mutators.Declare = function(self, typename){ self.$family = {'name':typename}; return self; };

and so $(new Box(myelemement)) == myelement

By: Jakub Pawlowicz

Jakub Pawlowicz — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:08:08 +0000

Wow, I wasn’t aware of toElement method either! Looking forward to the next article, Sean! Excellent work.

By: Bart Garbiak

Bart Garbiak — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:19:34 +0000

I have to say that even though I consider myself quite experienced Mootools user I didn't know about that toElement feature. It's great. Although now I feel I have to rewrite a lot of my latest work ;)

Thanks for an article anyway, it's excellent.