[RESOLVED] meaning of $find

[jasonli]

I'm using ASP.NET AJAX. I got a snippet of javascript from internet websites, and I found a statment -- $find("Label1").innerText = 'OK';

I've never seen that before. Anyone can tell me what the meaning is?

[PeejAvery]

Where did you find this? Are you sure that it is, in fact, proper coding?

I have never seen anything like it either.

[bigBA]

lol

this sounds, like they use some kind of javascript library which defines a $find method.

wild guess: prototype

and i think, this line of code just assigns OK to the innerText of the DOM node with the id "Label1"

[jasonli]

I got it. When developing ASP.NET AJAX Enabled Website, you will find that in script.

The statement means that to find Sys.Application object "Label1" and assign "OK" to it.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2006/10/20/atlas-control-toolkit-ajax-control-toolkit-migration-guide.aspx