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Hacking MooTools Elements and Storage / UIDs

Published by on 23 Sep '13 | Leave a response

Any element that has either being created or is passed on through a selector, gets assigned a property uid, which is incremental and unique. Since MooTools 1.4.2, this is only readable via Slick.uidOf(node) and not via the old element attr .uid. You can now use the new uniqueNumber property of any MooTools Element object. How is that being used? For… Read more →

Extend Slick pseudo selector to find data-attributes

Published by on 18 Sep '12 | Leave a response

This is a relatively simple idea. Select elements with data-attributes that match a pattern, for example, div[data-media-*]. The problem is, CSS selectors don;t allow you to wildcard attributes themselves so we need to be creative. We will extend the Slick selector engine with a data pseudo selector, which will look at the outerHTML of the element and find a match… Read more →