Accessing DOM node by id
If you have DOM node with id like
<div id="foo"></div>you can access it by referring to the variable named according to the id of DOM node:
alert(foo)You can test it using Developer Tools in Chrome:
Written by Vasiliy Ermolovich
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Doesn't that mean ID-used words are reversed now (can't be used as variable names)?
over 1 year ago
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Hey, you can read detailed explanation here http://stackoverflow.com/a/3434388/336626
over 1 year ago
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too much magic, can be clobbered by variables named the same as an element ID
over 1 year ago
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