Well, I just did this too - though not from Prototype but from my own $()
function that took a string or an object. All I really needed to do was
change my $(str) calls to $('#' + str), which I did via global
search-and-replace - searched for $(" and replaced it with $("# - worked
beautifully and I don't have to worry about intermediate functions. And
where $() returned an object, I didn't have to change anything (though I do
as I encounter them to use jquery syntax rather than my own).
James
Nate Cavanaugh wrote:
>
> John told me to post this here, so here it is....
>
> I am currently refactoring a large amount of code over to jQuery. Against
> better principles, the HTML is rife with onclick="fn()", etc, so I am
> having to convert over the functions themselves.
>
> Prototype's $() will take a string or an object, just like jQuery does,
> however, since prototype will ONLY look for id's if you pass it a string,
> you do not have to include the #, whereas with jQuery, if you do not
> include the #, it will look for a tagname rather than an element by id.
>
> So, here is an example of a generic function currently:
>
> function test(arg1,arg2){
> obj = $(arg1);
> return obj;
> }
>
> The above function will work in Prototype if it's a string or an object.
>
> So in my refactoring, I have been doing this:
>
> function test(arg1,arg2){
> obj = (typeof arg1 == 'string') ? $('#'+arg1) : $(arg1);
> return obj;
> }
>
> Is this the best/only way?
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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