Aaron Newton brings back $E for MooTools 1.2.1

In Aaron Newton\’s announcement of his beta plugins, he\’s brought the $E function back, and then some. $E, a function for returning the first element from a selector in MooTools 1.*, was removed from the beta and final release of MooTools 1.2.1.

I thought it was a useful function that was short and sweet.

//MooTools 1.2.1
$(document.body).getElement(\'a\');

//MooTools 1.*
$E(\'a\');

Some of the other plugins Aaron\’s released along with $E:

Today I released 9 scripts:

* DollarE – Brings back $E from MooTools 1.11. Returns a single Element for a selector.
* DollarG – Returns a collection when given an element, a collection of elements, an element id, or a selector.
* Hash.Run – Executes every method in a hash. Used for page init function groups.
* HoverGroup – Manages mousing in and out of multiple objects (think drop-down menus).
* InputFocus – Adds a ‘focused’ class to inputs when they have focus.
* MenuSlider – A simple dropdown class; see the menu at the top of Clientcide.com.
* Occlude – Mixin class for preventing a class from applying itself to the same element twice.
* String.FindAllEmails – Finds all the email addresses in a string.
* ToElement – Mixin class that returns *this.element*. Allows you to do $(myInstance).

Way to go Mr. Newton, way to go!