Thank you all!! After playing around with it some more, and practicing some
suggestions, I forgot how I got it to work in the first place =( !!! But, I
do understand now, what was said. Too many things can go wrong. So, thanks.
And thanks for the links Chris.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Christian Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Brett Patterson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > To All,
> >
> > I was playing around with a page where I found out that just about
> > everything that I wanted to do I had to use:
> >
> > function namedFunction(layer)
> > {
> > var whatever = document.getElementById(layer);
> > // other code here.
> > }
> >
> > And I got really annoyed at having to either copy and paste or retype the
> > getElementById(layer) part. So I thought about a way to not have to
> retype
> > it (and make it cross-browser compatible) and to assign it a variable
> that I
> > could use over and over again.
>
> Just about ever Javascript framework does something similar to:
>
> function $(id) {
> return document.getElementById(id);
> }
>
> So then you can just do:
>
> $('header');
>
> But if you really want cross-browser compatibility and also
> ease-of-use, I would suggest combining unobtrusive practices with a
> decent JS framework. There's a lot of gotchas out there.
>
>
> --
> --
> Christian Montoya
> christianmontoya.net
>
>
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