storage

How to clone element storage in mootools

Published by on 18 Feb '11 | Leave a response

Ever needed to clone an element and take your element storage with it? I have and it’s not easy. There’s Element.cloneEvents(), which takes the storage.events callbacks but any other storage you may have used remains unavailable behind the closure that MooTools uses for the storage object. This bit of code tracks of any data you store (via the lstore method… Read more →

porting element storage from mootools 1.2 to 1.11 and 1.1.2

Published by on 11 Mar '10 | 1 Response

This is a very nice feature, one of the great ideas that came with mootools 1.2. You can store any property within elements by simply mimicking the markup of <div myprop=”myvalue”> in javascript. However, setting such proprietary element properties in IE can be very slow. What mootools 1.2 did was to abstract element storage into a global object with the… Read more →