[Proto-Scripty] Re: How to create a new DOM-element from a string?

2010-12-08 Thread Luke
Hi Walter, yes the string comes from an ajax call and is not guaranteed to always follow the same pattern. However, by now I'm using prototype's BlindDown-effect when inserting and that even requires me to have a div wrapping what I want to insert (because of padding/margin), so it's ok that it's

[Proto-Scripty] Re: finding absolute position of an element

2010-12-08 Thread doug
On Dec 7, 12:12 pm, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 7 December 2010 16:17, doug wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 7, 10:58 am, Richard Quadling wrote: > >> On 7 December 2010 15:34, doug wrote: > > >> > From searching and looking at the API docs, doesn't look like > >> > prototype is able to do this,