Question

Short question.

Dojo’s query module always returns an array of nodes. Is there any way I can config/modify it so that

var contentNode = query('#content')[0];

can be written

var contentNode = query('#content'); 

instead?

That extra [0] annoys me, especially when Id’s are unique.

Answer 1

No. I’m sure this is a very conscious API decision so the return value is always uniform. That way the calling code doesn’t need to know the details of the path and whether it would return a list or a single node.

dojo.byId('content') does what you want though. Perhaps you could use that instead?