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News » Firebug + Dijit tips — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:19:24 +0000

[...] Firebug + Dijit tips. News to me: Firebug has a magic $1 variable which corresponds to the currently selected node. Very handy. [...]

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links for 2008-03-15 « d2blogtest — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:40:35 +0000

[...] DojoCampus » Blog Archive » Firebug + Dijit tips “in the firebug console, your selected node is available as $1″ (tags: firebug webdev dojo) [...]

By: pottedmeat

pottedmeat — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:21:37 +0000

@sfoster I can imagine taking that a step further and using Firebug’s inspect function. Instead of logging out your result, you could build a property bag of the important information you care about from the widget and open it in the DOM tab.

inspect((function(widget){ return { size: dojo.marginBox(widget.child.domNode)[widget.horizontal ? 'h' : 'w'], id: widget.id }; })(dijit.getEnclosingWidget($1)), 'dom')

By: sfoster

sfoster — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:41:06 +0000

Here’s another juicy one-liner that might give you some ideas:

(function() { console.log("child size: %s", dojo.marginBox(this.child.domNode)[ this.horizontal ? 'h' : 'w' ]) }).call(dijit.byNode($1))

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SitePen Blog » Dojo Storage and Dojo Bling — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:12:51 +0000

[...] Sam Foster uses Firebug on a daily basis while working with Dijit. He recently explained some Firebug productivity methods . These are some of the techniques that the new SitePen Support team uses to tackle your [...]

By: mccain

mccain — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:43:42 +0000

wow, that $1 thing is cool! didnt know it. Thx