you can be lazy and do: var prop = thisl.getElements('a').get('href').getLast();
it's not the most performant. On 3 October 2012 11:39, Arian Stolwijk <stolwijk.ar...@gmail.com> wrote: > $() and .getElement() can return null if the element doesn't exist. > So if you're not sure the element exists, you'll have to check it indeed > with an if statement. > > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Hamburger <bilidi...@web.de> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> please let me have one more beginner question. >> With the following test I will get an error if the 'a' - element doesnt >> exsist. >> var test = this.getElement("a").get("href"); >> >> What I would like to have is a 'null' or 'undefined' >> >> Do I have todo it realy like this: >> var test = this.getElement("a"); >> if (test) {test=test.get("href");} >> >> or is there a shorter other way to do this. > > -- Dimitar Christoff "JavaScript is to JAVA what hamster is to ham" @D_mitar - https://github.com/DimitarChristoff