Comments on: Sorting a Table with Javascript

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:40:45 +0000

That does look pretty neat, I must give prototype a try – especially since it looks like they’ve stopped messing with Object.prototype

I’ve been using Dean Edwards CSS Query script – http://dean.edwards.name/my/cssQuery/ – for a current project, which I’ve been very impressed with. I wonder how prototype’s $$() compares with it?

By: Jules

Jules — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:55:37 +0000

I don’t know if prototype supports more or less selectors than css Query, but it certainly does support a lot.

Give event:Selectors a try:

http://encytemedia.com/event-selectors/

It’s based on prototypes $$ function, and it allows you to do:

var Rules = {
‘#mylist li:click’: function(e) {

// do something with e
}

}

EventSelectors.start(Rules);

Rather than:

function initializeFunctions(){
$$(‘#mylist li’).each(function(e)
{

e.onclick = function()
{

// do something with e
}

}
}

window.onload = function(){
initializeFunctions()
}

By: Rich LaMarche

Rich LaMarche — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:42:53 +0000

Check this page out – http://www.ericvasilik.com/2006/07/code-karma.html – for a good explaination of why your page doesn’t work in IE. In the comments here – http://www.ajaxian.com/archives/innerhtml-gotchas – from Paul Chiu is a fitting solution for your code.

You can replace:
Element.replace($$(“.genericTable tbody”).first(), sortedRowsHTML);

With
ieTableInnerHTML($$(“.genericTable tbody”).first(), sortedRowsHTML);

after droping in his function and your code will work in IE and Firefox.

-Rich