Rails spinoffs - Dec 2005 - What does mean $(element) ?

Hi All,

In scriptaculous scripts, I don''t understand this syntaxe : $(element)

--8<---------------------------------
Effect.Highlight = Class.create();
Object.extend(Object.extend(Effect.Highlight.prototype,
Effect.Base.prototype), {
  initialize: function(element) {
    this.element = $(element);
    ...
--8<---------------------------------

I had never seen this syntaxe, I doesn''t know where I have to search
and google doesn''t like $ in request :/

Thanks in advance for any explanations or urls,
Nicolas Terray

Hi Nicolas,

$(element) is part of the prototype framework. It''s a shortcut for:
document.getElementById()

http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html


-Daniel Elmore


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Subject: [Rails-spinoffs] What does mean $(element) ?

Hi All,

In scriptaculous scripts, I don''t understand this syntaxe : $(element)

--8<---------------------------------
Effect.Highlight = Class.create();
Object.extend(Object.extend(Effect.Highlight.prototype,
Effect.Base.prototype), {
  initialize: function(element) {
    this.element = $(element);
    ...
--8<---------------------------------

I had never seen this syntaxe, I doesn''t know where I have to search
and google doesn''t like $ in request :/

Thanks in advance for any explanations or urls,
Nicolas Terray
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On 12/8/05, Daniel Elmore
<danielelmore-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> $(element) is part of the prototype framework. It''s a shortcut
for:
> document.getElementById()
>
> http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html
>
Thanks a lot for your answer. I thought that it was a syntax for
references (like & in php) or some javascript-specific stuff...

:)
Nicolas Terray

> > http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html
Do you have other great urls like that about prototype in your bookmarks ?

Nicolas Terray

For Beginners this one should be fine:
http://particletree.com/features/quick-guide-to-prototype/

This won''t probably help you too much, but you can take a look:
http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/jordan/pages/Prototype%20Library%20Info.htm

Hope this helps!

Thank you,
Mandy.

Not to mention the Script.aculo.us docs which improve all the time:

http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Prototype

On 12/8/05, Maninder, Singh <mandiv@corp.untd.com>
wrote:
> For Beginners this one should be fine:
> http://particletree.com/features/quick-guide-to-prototype/
>
> This won't probably help you too much, but you can take a look:
> http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/jordan/pages/Prototype%20Library%20Info.htm
>
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Hi Nicolas,

I found mos usefull explanation of prototype.js here: 
http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html.

Explanation of  $() function is just at the top!

Regards
Janko

Nicolas Terray wrote:
>>>http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html
> 
> 
> Do you have other great urls like that about prototype in your bookmarks ?
> 
> Nicolas Terray