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[10:50:46 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> time to try my hand at my first fluid component
[10:50:55 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> wicked 
[11:45:43 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> fluid component question
[11:45:52 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> does that.locate only find things that are children of the container?
[11:46:10 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> EricDalquist: Yep, exactly.
[11:46:15 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> hrm
[11:46:25 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> It's designed to constrain your searches to a specific region of the page, so you don't go sucking up some other portlet's markup.
[11:46:26 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark>
[11:46:34 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> It can be overridden if you need to
[11:46:41 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> ok
[11:46:44 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> using an optional second argument, which is the context in which to run the search
[11:47:11 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> because for a component I'm working on I have to reference a <div> that is a direct child of the body
[11:47:21 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> ah
[11:47:23 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> to put up a transparent overlay
[11:47:27 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> right
[11:47:41 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> I suppose I could pass a reference in the constructor
[11:47:47 EDT(-0400)] <athena> sounds sort of like the error div for the layout reorderer
[11:47:50 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> That's something we do sometimes, yes
[11:47:53 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> yep
[11:48:01 EDT(-0400)] <athena> and i think that's exactly what that component does
[11:48:07 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> pass in a reference?
[11:48:11 EDT(-0400)] <athena> took me a while to figure out why a normal selector didn't work
[11:48:12 EDT(-0400)] <athena> yep
[11:48:14 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> yeah, it's passed in as an option
[11:48:43 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> if a normal selector doesn't work, athena, shouldn't that be a bug?
[11:48:43 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark>
[11:48:44 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> ok
[11:49:06 EDT(-0400)] <athena> well, antranig said it doesn't work because it's outside the container
[11:49:12 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> hrm
[11:49:52 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> athena: Ah, of course
[11:50:27 EDT(-0400)] <colinclark> It's a tough call, because sometimes components do need to stretch outside of their purview. But most of the time, it's actually a problem.
[11:50:47 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> yeah
[11:58:52 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> so what would the syntact for that.locate be if I wanted to find an element by id on the page?
[11:59:16 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> I have " overlay: '#portlet-controls_dd-layer' " defined in my selectors
[11:59:30 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> that that is a <div> directly under the <body>
[12:00:11 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> var ddLayer = that.locate('overlay', $('body'));
[12:00:13 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> that worked
[12:00:19 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> not sure if it is the best approach
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[12:16:27 EDT(-0400)] <athena> i think for the layout reorderer, we just fed it thingy: $('#thingy')
[12:16:46 EDT(-0400)] <EricDalquist> ah
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