DOM breakpoints (Attributes Modifications) do not fire if the DOM element is indirectly referenced. A bug or limitation?

[Tony Henrich]

Say I have a div with an id="customer". In Javascript I define a function. Inside the function I have an object with a property whose value equals the div's id value. Something like this minimalist example (using jQuery)

SomeNameSpace.myFunction = function(){


var myCustomer = {
        myDiv: '#customer',
        .....};


 $(myCustomer.myDiv).hide();  <== doesn't cause the breakpoint to fire
 $('#customer').hide();       <== this causes breakpoint to fire
 
}

If I have a DOM breakpoint (Attributes Modifications) set on the div, the hide() doesn't fire. It fires if I do: $('#customer').hide();

Is this a bug? I am trying to use these breakpoints to find what javascript is modifying some css attributes and this issue is a problem. I am using the latest Chrome and Chrome Canary.

I appreciate other ways to find these Javascripts.

[PhistucK]

I went to the jQuery API page (since I know it has jQuery), selected the <div id="logo-events"> and set a breakpoint on attribute modifications.

Then I ran this in the console -

function p(){

var myCustomer = {

        myDiv: '#logo-events',

        };

 console.log("break! 1");

 $(myCustomer.myDiv).hide();  //<== doesn't cause the breakpoint to fire

 console.log("broke? 1");

 console.log("break! 2");

 $('#logo-events').hide();      // <== this causes breakpoint to fire

 console.log("broke? 2")

}

p();

And it broke on both of them. No problem here.

☆PhistucK

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[PhistucK]

This page, sorry -

http://api.jquery.com/

☆PhistucK