Accessing properties of HTML Elements

[Greg]

I love DOMAssistant's simplicity. I'm planning on bundling it with my currently in development open source project, but I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong in this simple use case.

Accessing the "special" properties or methods of the DOMAssistant object, like $( ... ).addEvent( ... ) or $( ... ).load( ... ) works as I would expect, but to access the standard properties and methods of the returned HTML Elements, I seem to have to specify the key on which to manipulate.

For example:

$("p").innerText = "Test"; // Does not work.

I would expect that to change all paragraphs' innerText property to "Test", but instead, I get the error that the object does not have the property "innerText", and to fix this I have to specify what index of the returned array to access..

.. like this:

$("p")[0].innerText = "Test"; // Works.

Can anyone give me any advice on where I'm going wrong?

Cheers.

[Robert Nyman]

Haven't been dabbling with DOMAssistant in years, but I'd say that is in line with how jQuery and other JavaScript libraries do it as well.
For a direct element reference for one element and to access properties, you can use the $$ method. E.g:

$$("container");

However, if you want more than one, you need to either access it by array index or iterate over all returned matches with a loop.


Best regards,
Robert

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