Hi, > David, although your suggestion doesn't throw any errors, it doesnt work > either... kinda wierd as I thought it would...
It does work, barring there being something wrong somewhere else: http://jsbin.com/elota3 The problem with your original code was as as Jonathan said, you were passing the string "input[type=radio][name='type'][value=selectThis]" into $$ as the selector. David's suggestion fixes that by using the *value* of selectThis rather the actual text "selectThis". As the live example above shows, that works. FWIW, -- T.J. Crowder Independent Software Engineer tj / crowder software / com www / crowder software / com On Sep 25, 2:21 pm, Phil Petree <phil.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > David, although your suggestion doesn't throw any errors, it doesnt work > either... kinda wierd as I thought it would... and it would have been MUCH > simpler to implement too! > > > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:57 AM, David Behler <d.beh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What about this: > > > $$("input[type=radio][name='type'][value='" + selectThis + "']") > > > ? > > > Am 25.09.2010 14:41, schrieb Phil Petree: > > > Jonathan, > > > Thanks for that but like most things in the prototype documentation, it > > lacks the type of clarity that I can understand. > > > IOW, I can read the documentation, scratch my head and say huh? I leave > > that documentation thinking "this might be what I need but have no clue as > > to how to implement that to solve my problem." > > > Which is exactly what happened here... OK, I need to use templates to > > somehow sprintf the string constant into a direct value but huh? > > > On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Jonathan Rosenberg > > <j...@tabbysplace.org>wrote: > > >> You're passing a string constant to $$ > > >> "input[type=radio][name='type'][value=selectThis]") > > >> 'selectThis' will not be evaluated, as you seem to be expecting. Have a > >> loook at Tenplate to do what you want: > > >> http://www.prototypejs.org/api/template > > >> -- > >> Jonathan Rosenberg > >> Founder & Executive Director > >> Tabby's Place > >>http://www.tabbysplace.org > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> *From:* prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com [mailto: > >> prototype-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Phil Petree > >> *Sent:* Saturday, September 25, 2010 7:46 AM > >> *To:* prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com > >> *Subject:* [Proto-Scripty] Variables in $$() ????? > > >> I've hit this in two seperate places and not exactly sure why... > >> (I think its the 18 hour days, 7 days a week... <g>) > > >> If "value" is hard set with '3' the following works: > >> $$("input[type=radio][name='type'][value='3']")[0].writeAttribute("checked" > >> , > >> "checked"); > >> However, if we use a variable (selectThis) and assign it "3" it does not > >> work. > >> var selectThis; > >> selectThis = '3'; > >> $$("input[type=radio][name='type'][value=selectThis]")[0].writeAttribute("c > >> hecked", > >> "checked"); > > >> Type casting doesn't work either: > >> var selectThis; > >> selectThis = String('3'); > >> $$("input[type=radio][name='type'][value=selectThis]")[0].writeAttribute("c > >> hecked", > >> "checked"); > > >> I'm having the same problem here too (compare o.value== 'GA' and the > >> select gets set to GA): > >> selectThis = 'GA' > >> $$('select#ajstate option').each(function(o){ > >> if(o.value==selectThis){o.selected = true;$break;} > >> }); > > >> What am I missing here? > >> -- > >> 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-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<prototype-scriptaculou > >> s%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > > >> -- > >> 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-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<prototype-scriptaculou > >> s%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. > > > -- > > 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-scriptacul...@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. > > > -- > > 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-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<prototype-scriptaculou > > s%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. 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