Why not just define a global variable, like <script type="text/javascript">var divID = 0;</script>
and use that when assigning the ID, while incrementing the value for the next...... So a super quick example http://paste.pocoo.org/show/94617/ On Dec 9, 3:51 pm, brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > or: DOMWindow -- open with selector > > I'm writing a plugin that creates a div with a form and attaches it to > the document, hidden. There may be several of these on the page so I > dispensed with IDs, choosing to use class selectors to get at them to > display, etc.. So far, this has been fine. > > However, I'd like to have the option to use a DOMWindow to display > these divs. I'd like to assign a click handler to my button which > would open the corresponding div. The problem is that DOMWindow only > seems to accept an ID for the div from which to get the inline > content. There doesn't appear to be any way to pass it a selector > string (both strange and unfortunate). > > It looks like I'll need to add IDs to my hidden divs, though, as I > said, there's no telling how many will be created on a page. I've read > that appending datetime to an ID string isn't guaranteed to provide > unique strings. Does anyone have any hints for a bullet-proof way to > do that? > > Or, should I just hack this feature into DOMWindow and get on with things? > > [1]http://swip.codylindley.com/
