Functions

• el: gets an element by id
• els: gets an element's style object by elm's id
• tags: get tags into array by tag name
• aCSS: adds a new stylesheet from a string containing css text
• dom: several methods to simplify working with the dom:
  • dom.div(nodeName, content) - quickly creates a new element with the value/innerHTML of content
  • dom.attribs(elm, attribOb) - binds an object of attribs and properties to an element
  • dom.create(nodeName, content, attribs) - a new element filled with content and bound to attribs object
  • dom.prependChild(newChild, parentElement) - makes newChild the first sub-tag inside parentElement
  • dom.text(elm) - returns the text content of an element. handles inputs and regular tags.
  • dom.kill(elm) - removes an element from the document
  • dom.encodeHTML(str) - allows source code to be display without parsing
  • dom.getParent(elm, tagName) - finds the first tagName tag wrapping the element
  • dom.replace(newNode, oldNode) - replaces one element with another

• map: applies a function to each index of an array
• filter: filters array elements according to truthfulness of function's return
• indexOf: gives arrays an indexOf feature
• pluck: build a new array of objects from a passed array of keynames
• random: a random element of an array
• unique: returns a duplicate-free array
• valids: array stripped of undefined elements
• _: a property of each element
• bind: adds propert(y/ies) /methods to each element
• iif: a conditional to filter an array of objects ex: tags("*").iif(".className=='active' ")

• ping(url): send a GET request to any URL on any domain
• store(key, val): client-side persistence. if !! val then set else get key (ff+ie only)
• IO : file saving and loading. loads synchronous, saves asynch
• jsGet(url): simple remote scripting tag adder
• tmpl8: a substitution template using json: **key**- tmpl8( [{a:1},{a:4}] , "#: **a**\t") ="#: 1 #: 4 "
• Object.toSource(): json serializer for all browsers

• obKeys: array of object's key names
• obMap: 2 column array from objects key and values : {k:v, k2:v2} => [ [k,v], [k2,v2] ]
• obVals: array of object's values
• obValsl: returns an array of objects from objects with native .length properties (like nodeLists and collections)