New PDF release: Prototype and script.aculo.us: you never knew JavaScript

By Christophe Porteneuve

ISBN-10: 1934356018

ISBN-13: 9781934356012

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NodeType==3 ? hasChildNodes() ? join('' ); } }); There! We have this nice little object available, so how do we dynamically apply it to all

elements in the document? each(function(table) { new TableSorter(table); }); }); When the DOM is done loading, our anonymous function gets called, and its single line (line 2) uses the ubiquitous $$( ) function to select all tables in the document and then creates a TableSorter object over each. 4, $$ Searches with Style, on page 45. OK, now let’s refresh our page and try it.

Function Often we find ourselves needing to pass a method around, but we need to prefill one or more arguments. For instance, we have a split( ) method handy, but we’d like to pass it prefilled with ’:’ as a delimiter. split(':' ); } // ... splitOnColons() // => ['1', '2', '3', '4'] 62 Y OUR F UNCTIONS A CTUALLY K NOW M ORE T RICKS That’s really too verbose for the need. curry(':' ); No manual tricks with anonymous functions anymore. ), it will return the original function untouched, avoiding the cost of an anonymous wrapper function.

They’re pretty much ubiquitous, both 50 H ANDLING R ANGES WITH $R in the library’s source code and in real-world user code. And although $( ) and $A( ) are by far the most popular ones, do not pass over the other ones; they’re all here for a reason, and they’re all idiomatic Prototype. Let’s Review What We Learned Prototype offers a series of utility functions, which are so commonly used that their names were made as short as reasonably possible: just two characters (a dollar sign and a letter).

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