Question

I am trying to understand the difference between
dijit.byId and dojo.byId

For this i have taken a Button and a div .(To set the
data inside the div on click of the Button)

Show Me!

<div id="findMe">
    Hiya!
</div>

This is working (dojo.byId)

function callMe()
{
  var node = dojo.byId('findMe');
 node.innerHTML = "Hello World";
 }

But this isn’t working (dijit.byId)

 function callMe()
    {
      var node = dijit.byId('findMe');
     node.innerHTML = "Hello World";
     }

My understanding is , when refering to the div we need to use dojo.byId
and when we are refering to Individual components use dijit.byId

Please correct me if i am wrong .

Answer 1

You are right:

• dojo.byId finds elements in the DOM tree of your website with a certain ID – it searches and returns HTML elements.
• dijit.byId finds dijits you created with a certain id – it searches and returns dijits (javascript objects), although these objects usually refer to a certain DOM node.