Question

I’m attempting to use mootools’ .getFirst(); to select (naturally) the first element that matches a particular CSS3 selector. However, it doesn’t seem to work, and I am forced to fall back to using .getElement();, which also works as intended.

http://jsfiddle.net/NdWs9/

Note that .getElement(); returns the <li> element while .getFirst(); does not.

Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Unfortunately it seems like getFirst is not recursive, which means that for your example to work you’ll have to update it to $('foo').getFirst('* li');.

http://jsfiddle.net/mqchen/NdWs9/2/