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Category: Tutorials Add Comment Ecytemedia has an article on how to use Events in Prototype. It dives into attaching functions to events using Event.observe along with some advanced javascript using anonymous functions and closures. Check out the following code block:
$$(this.list + " li").each(function(item) {
Event.observe(item, 'click', this.showTagName.bindAsEventListener(this));
}.bind(this));
Read this as "get all items for [...]
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