MooTools Pseudo Selectors Gone Wild

By  on  

Over the past few weeks, I've covered how you can create your own pseudo selectors in MooTools. In looking at jQuery's documentation and considering other often-checked element traits, I've created a bunch more useful MooTools pseudo selectors.

The MooTools JavaScript

/* grab "checked" elements */
Selectors.Pseudo.checked = function() {
	return ('input' == this.get('tag') && ('radio' == this.get('type') || 'checkbox' == this.get('type')) && this.checked);
};

/* grab "selected" option elements */
Selectors.Pseudo.selected = function() {
	return ('option' == this.get('tag') && this.selected);
};

/* grab random elements */
/* credit:  http://blog.kassens.net/custom-pseudo-selectors */
Selectors.Pseudo.random = function(probability, local) {
	return Math.random() < (probability || .5).toFloat();
};

/* grab elements with no value */
Selectors.Pseudo.noValue = function() {
	return '' === this.value;
}

/* grab elements with a specific empty attribute */
Selectors.Pseudo.emptyAttribute = function(att) {
	return this.get(att) == '';
}

/* grab disabled elements */
Selectors.Pseudo.disabled = function() {
	return this.disabled;
}

/* grab enabled elements */
Selectors.Pseudo.enabled = function() {
	return !this.disabled;
}

/* grab each type of input */
['text','password','radio','checkbox','submit','image','reset','button','file','hidden'].each(function(type) {
	Selectors.Pseudo.(type) = function() {
		return type == this.get('type') && 'input' == this.get('tag');
	}
});

/* form element ? */
Selectors.Pseudo.input = function() {
	return 'textarea' == this.get('tag') || 'select' == this.get('tag') || 'input' == this.get('tag') || 'button' == this.get('tag');
}

Have any more to add to the pile? Share them!

Recent Features

  • By
    How to Create a RetroPie on Raspberry Pi &#8211; Graphical Guide

    Today we get to play amazing games on our super powered game consoles, PCs, VR headsets, and even mobile devices.  While I enjoy playing new games these days, I do long for the retro gaming systems I had when I was a kid: the original Nintendo...

  • By
    LightFace:  Facebook Lightbox for MooTools

    One of the web components I've always loved has been Facebook's modal dialog.  This "lightbox" isn't like others:  no dark overlay, no obnoxious animating to size, and it doesn't try to do "too much."  With Facebook's dialog in mind, I've created LightFace:  a Facebook lightbox...

Incredible Demos

Discussion

  1. Anton

    Without steering away from the subject too much, what about grabbing all elements that have an event attached to them?

  2. @Anton: Great question. I’ll be researching this very soon, as I too have interest in such a functionality.

  3. I am a RSS feed subscriber and I don’t miss a day without visiting this blog: your MooTools tips are tremendous! and this one is very useful!

    Thanks! :)

  4. Brett

    For selecting all headers in order. like jQuery: $(“:header”)

    Selectors.Pseudo.header = function() {
    return this.get('tag') == "h1" || this.get('tag') == "h2" || this.get('tag') == "h3" || this.get('tag') == "h4" || this.get('tag') == "h5" ||this.get('tag') == 'h6'
    }

Wrap your code in <pre class="{language}"></pre> tags, link to a GitHub gist, JSFiddle fiddle, or CodePen pen to embed!