On 25 January 2011 16:15, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote:
> I've done the following a lot in a piece of code I'm working on:
>
> var t = new Template('<div id="id_#{num}">...</div>');
> $R(1,4).each(function(n){
> $('page').insert(t.evaluate({num:n}));
> //and then I need to add some extras to that div
> //so I end up doing this to get a handle on it
> $('id_' + n ).doSomethingElse();
> });
>
> Is there another way to return a reference to a new template-based element so
> I don't have to do a find by ID (and worry about browsers' lag times in
> recognizing new DOM objects)?
>
> I can obviously just to this:
>
> var newElement = new Element('div',{id:'id_' + n});
>
> and I have done so in a few other places, but Templates are so nice and clean
> and reduce the concatenation to a minimum. (Plus, this is a cut-down example
> and the real thing is much more complex.) It would be nice if insert could
> return an object reference to the object created, rather than the object that
> you're inserting into, or if Template could refer somehow to the object
> created rather than just the string that will define it once it's inserted in
> another element.
>
> Walter
Template.evaluate doesn't create an object, just a string, so there is
no way to maintain a reference to anything. Only if you insert the
string into the DOM does it become capable of having a reference.
var ref = $('page').insert(...);
But as you are calling this in a loop (essentially), you will need to
generate an array of refs.
ref[n] = $('page').insert(...);
Maybe.
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