I was figuring that I wouldn't be able to pull that off, but I'll try
your example or keep working on it.

Thanks!
-kb

On Apr 17, 4:51 pm, nwhite <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think you can concat or use var replacement when defining the key in
> new objects in javascript.
>
> That is why the original prototype author defined styles in two statements.
>
> style = $extend({
>        "float": a,
>        marginTop: this.closeDimensions[s].height + 'px'}
>
> style["padding" + a.capitalize()] = this.border + 'px';
>
> The following should work:
>
> someEl.setStyles({
>    'float' : a,
>    'margin-top' : this.closeDimensions[s].height
>
> }).setStyle('padding'+a.capitalize(), this.border);
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Thierry bela nanga <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > or maybe you should change the '=' to ':'
> > I think you miss that.
>
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Thierry bela nanga <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >> someEl.setStyles({
> >>     'float': a,
> >>     'margin-top': this.closeDimensions[s].height + 'px',
> >> //property is missing here
> >>     'padding' + a.capitalize() = this.border + 'px'
> >> });
>
> >> the property name is missing in the last line
>
> >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:09 PM, keif <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> I'm porting a function from prototype, and something the original
> >>> author does (that seems to break in MooTools) is do:
> >>> style = $extend({
> >>>        "float": a,
> >>>        marginTop: this.closeDimensions[s].height + 'px'
> >>> }
> >>> style["padding" + a.capitalize()] = this.border + 'px';
> >>> someEl.setStyle({style});
>
> >>> so MooTools chokes on using an object to set the styles - I *am*
> >>> converting setStyle to setStyles({style}), and broke it down to:
>
> >>> someEl.setStyles({
> >>>        'float': a,
> >>>        'margin-top': this.closeDimensions[s].height + 'px',
> >>>        'padding' + a.capitalize() = this.border + 'px'
> >>> });
>
> >>> and it throws an error on the third style saying it's missing a ':'
> >>> after the property ID.
>
> >>> Any ideas? TIA.
>
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