With Microsoft’s recent announcement that they will begin shipping jQuery with Visual Studio, the little Javascript framework is about to hit the big time (it was already sort of big time, but this is BIG TIME). And rightfully so.
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In Javascript, one of the most common things you do is document.getElementById(‘someid’). But what if you got the Element from an Event and you want to use that Object with the Prototype Javascript Library or some other library that relies on using the ID?
In that case, you can’t just tack on the Prototype functions like: obj.addClassname(‘someclass’); You have to use an object that is extended with the Prototype or other library’s magic.
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Sometimes programming can make you question your sanity. If you don’t think you’ve crossed the line there, you might at least wonder whether you should take up something a little more tangible, like backhoe operator. Such was the case as I scoured the documentation for the Script.aculo.us Ajax Autocompleter. Ultimately, I was to blame it on the lack of a crystalline, 100% matched example for my problem. I must state for the record that Prototype and Scriptaculous are nothing short of miraculous when it comes to making Javascript accessible to the unwashed like me. All the same, I have spent many hours over the last couple of days getting the Autocompleter to work.
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