Hi, > hmm, well, links[0] is returning a string, not the a object...
No, it isn't. Richard already answered your question: Your alert coerces the object into a string, which implicitly calls the toString method on it, which (in the case of a link) returns the href. If you actually _try_ what he suggested, you'll see that he's right. Here's a page demonstrating this stuff: http://pastie.org/422726 If you run that in a browser, the output is: * * * * links.length = 4 typeof links[0] = object links[0].id = one links[0].href = http://prototypejs.org/api links[0].innerHTML = Prototype API links[0] dumped via implicit call to toString: http://prototypejs.org/api ------------- The full array: Link "one" ("Prototype API") links to http://prototypejs.org/api Link "two" ("Google (U.S.)") links to http://www.google.com/ Link "four" ("Example") links to http://example.com/ Link "five" ("BBC News") links to http://news.bbc.co.uk/ * * * * HTH, -- T.J. Crowder tj / crowder software / com Independent Software Engineer, consulting services available On Mar 20, 5:01 pm, tkane2000 <tkthomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > hmm, well, links[0] is returning a string, not the a object, so those > will both return null. > > The question is why does this statement: > $$('.gallery .thumb .listItem .thumbHolder'); > return the value of href (a string) and not that a object? > > Thanks! > > On Mar 20, 6:38 am, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Almost certainly you are seeing the results of a toString() method > > kicking in for the objects (or similar). > > > Try ... > > > alert("links[0]:" + links[0].id + ':' + links[0].href); > > > Richard Quadling. > > > 2009/3/20 tkane2000 <tkthomp...@gmail.com>: > > > > How come the $$() function returns the value of the href when > > > selecting an anchor tag instead of the tag itself? ...I've had mixed > > > results for this btwn FF and IE6, but it's consistant in the code > > > below. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong here or if there's a > > > workaround? > > > > <div id="gallery"> > > > <div class="thumb"> > > > <div class="listItem"> > > > <a href="/asdfasdf/asdfsdf.jhtml" > > > class="thumbHolder">this is some > > > text</a><br /> > > > <a href="/asdfasdf/asdfsdf.jhtml" > > > class="thumbHolder">this is some > > > text</a><br /> > > > </div> > > > </div><br /> > > > <div class="thumb"> > > > <div class="listItem"> > > > <a href="/asdfasdf/234234.jhtml" > > > class="thumbHolder">this is some > > > text 21</a><br /> > > > <a href="/asdfasdf/234234.jhtml" > > > class="thumbHolder">this is some > > > text 23</a><br /> > > > </div> > > > </div> > > > </div> > > > > <script type="text/javascript"> > > > var links = $$('.gallery .thumb .listItem .thumbHolder'); > > > alert("links[0]:" + links[0]); > > > </script> > > > -- > > ----- > > Richard Quadling > > Zend Certified Engineer :http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 > > "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!" > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
