So if you add a node to the document, then use apply, it won’t re-apply the behavior to nodes that have already been matched.

>> dojo.require(”dojo.behavior”);
>> dojo.behavior.add({ ‘body’ : { found: function(e) { console.debug(e); }, onkeypress:function(e) { console.debug(’o hai’, e); } } });
>> dojo.behavior.apply();

Thanks for the reply….

Adding behaviours to body seems to work for me – dojo.behavior applies its queries to the document so everything should fall into its scope.

> dojo.behavior.add({ ‘body’ : { onkeypress:function(e) { console.debug(’o hai’, e); } } });
> dojo.behavior.apply();

In FF2/OSX keys pressed with no element focussed ran the auto-search functionality instead, but it worked fine in a textarea on the page.

- Rob

Now it behaves the same as dojo.behavior. Anyway to use dojo.behavior so it binds to the whole page?

dojo.require(”dojo.behavior”);
dojo.behavior.add( {
body: {
onkeypress: function(evt) { console.log(”ur doin it wrong”) }
}
});
dojo.behavior.apply();

That didn’t do anything unless I click in a text box and start typing. I expteced the event to fire if I clicked anywhere on hit the keyboard command.

Yet, when I do this:
dojo.connect(document.getElementsByName(”body”)[0],
“onkeypress”,
function(evt) {
console.log(”o hai!”);
}
);

and click anywhere on the page (like on an empty div) and start typing, it’ll output ‘o hai’

I realize this might not be the place to post this but I figured I’d stop here before I dove into the forums.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks!

There’s no technical difference between them. It really appeals to me because it’s clean – at a glance i can see what behaviours are applying to which nodes – no addOnLoad() blocks full of repeated calls to dojo.query(). In one app we have several modules that might combine on a page – each has a behaviours section with a call to dojo.behavior.add() in it – you know where to look, and its not mixed up with other onLoad code.

Rob

What are the advantages of using dojo.behavior, vs. dojo.query.connect or dojo.connect? Centralized location of code?