Question

First of all: I’m new to Prototype JS Framework!
Until now I worked with jQuery.
In jQuery I am able to get an element by coding:

$('#myitemid .myitemclass').val()

html:

<div id="myitemid">
    <input type="text" class="notmyclass" />
    <input type="text" class="myitemclass" />
    <input type="text" class="notmyclass" />
</div>

But how to do this in prototype?
I tried to code:

$('myitemid .myitemclass').value

but this won’t work.
Can U help me plz?

Answer 1

Use $$ which returns all elements in the document that match the provided CSS selectors.

var elemValue = $$('#myitemid input.myitemclass')[0].getValue();

Also input.myitemclass is better than .myitemclass because it restricts search to input elements with class name .myitemclass.