Hi Nicolas, $(element) is part of the prototype framework. It's a shortcut for: document.getElementById()
http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html -Daniel Elmore -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nicolas Terray Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 4:06 AM To: rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org Subject: [Rails-spinoffs] What does mean $(element) ? Hi All, In scriptaculous scripts, I don't understand this syntaxe : $(element) --8<--------------------------------- Effect.Highlight = Class.create(); Object.extend(Object.extend(Effect.Highlight.prototype, Effect.Base.prototype), { initialize: function(element) { this.element = $(element); ... --8<--------------------------------- I had never seen this syntaxe, I doesn't know where I have to search and google doesn't like $ in request :/ Thanks in advance for any explanations or urls, Nicolas Terray _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
