Assume the element you want to give a unique id to is stored in the
var element, unless you are creating an element more than once every
millisecond, you can use the following...
element.id = 'element-' + $time();
But a better way to do it would be to use the element's UID which it
gets upon being extended (when using the $ function)...
element = $(element);
element.id = 'element-' + element.uid;
since the uid property is internal, pretend i didn't tell you about
it :P
- Tom
On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Vortexmind wrote:
Hi
as I'm using mootools library to create new elements in my DOM tree,
I've made a small function to return a new ID and ensure that it's not
already defined in DOM tree. Here is it
function __getUID(){
var rand_letters =
['a
','b
','c
','d
','e','f','g','i','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','z'];
var uid = null;
while(true){
uid = rand_letters.getRandom() + $random(0,20) +
rand_letters.getRandom() + $random(0,20) + rand_letters.getRandom() +
$random(0,20);
if(!$defined($(uid)))break;
}
return uid;
};
well ... it's kinda paranoid and not so efficient but it works. Does
anyone knows a better method to do this?
