It's the way IE builds the dom for its browser and it actually isnt compliant anyway. I would "never" reference anything in the dom like that
-----Original Message----- From: Gafa [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 21 September 2010 11:44 PM To: MooTools Users Subject: [Moo] Direct Element Reference If you use "$" on an element in IE7 or Chrome 6.0.4+ you can directly reference that element by name/id without the use of "$" in additional code? Is this intended functionality? Does not work in FF3.6+ http://www.jsfiddle.net/bSKsc/ Came across the above, code reviewing another web devs work, and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Gafa
