> since these werent added to the page the "class" was messing things > up.
Maybe it was optimized to native getElementsByClassName, which won't work outside the DOM; likewise, getElementById is for the true DOM ID type attribute. But [id=idname] is a "dumb" attribute selector that will work on an island. Did you look at my Fiddle? I was using real XML, not HTML. I'm confused about your switch back to 1.2 -- how is that using Slick? -- S.
