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For that modern web feeling (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by bestelbus22@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] dan@upvote.au 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

If your element has an id, you can just reference it from the window scope

This is brittle, as defining a global variable with the same name (or the browser adding a API with the same name) will override it. This functionality was only kept for backwards compatibility with sites designed for Internet Explorer. The spec says to use getElementById instead.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 days ago

Aww man. I only found out about this recently :(

[–] bestelbus22@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

I knew about this feature yeah but it seemed too janky to me (which says something, you should see the rest of my project :P)