Re: [Proto-Scripty] Variables in $$() ?????

 What about this:

$$("input[type=radio][name='type'][value='" + selectThis + "']")

?

Am 25.09.2010 14:41, schrieb Phil Petree:
> Jonathan,
> Thanks for that but like most things in the prototype documentation, 
> it lacks the type of clarity that I can understand.
> IOW, I can read the documentation, scratch my head and say huh? I 
> leave that documentation thinking "this might be what I need but have 
> no clue as to how to implement that to solve my problem."
> Which is exactly what happened here... OK, I need to use templates to 
> somehow sprintf the string constant into a direct value but huh?
>
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Jonathan Rosenberg 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>     You're passing a string constant to $$
>         "input[type=radio][name='type'][value=selectThis]")
>     'selectThis' will not be evaluated, as you seem to be expecting. 
>     Have a loook at Tenplate to do what you want:
>     http://www.prototypejs.org/api/template
>
>     --
>     Jonathan Rosenberg
>     Founder & Executive Director
>     Tabby's Place
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>         I've hit this in two seperate places and not exactly sure why...
>         (I think its the 18 hour days, 7 days a week... <g>)
>         If "value" is hard set with '3' the following works:
>         
> $$("input[type=radio][name='type'][value='3']")[0].writeAttribute("checked",
>         "checked");
>         However, if we use a variable (selectThis) and assign it "3"
>         it does not work.
>         var selectThis;
>         selectThis = '3';
>         
> $$("input[type=radio][name='type'][value=selectThis]")[0].writeAttribute("checked",
>         "checked");
>         Type casting doesn't work either:
>         var selectThis;
>         selectThis = String('3');
>         
> $$("input[type=radio][name='type'][value=selectThis]")[0].writeAttribute("checked",
>         "checked");
>         I'm having the same problem here too (compare o.value== 'GA'
>         and the select gets set to GA):
>         selectThis = 'GA'
>         $$('select#ajstate option').each(function(o){
>             if(o.value==selectThis){o.selected = true;$break;}
>         });
>         What am I missing here?
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