How to unwrap $() / get native object?

I'm picking up a bunch of select's via $$, then I want to clean them all by using the selects remove function... well I can't because mootools overloads its own remove function, completely hiding the remove function.

So is there a way to get the unwrapped object?

(Do you know what I'm talking about?)

unwrapped object?

no glue...

maybe you mean the native DOM element not extended with MooTools functionality (trough $) - but why the hell would you like to have this?

yes, the native DOM-object.

And the reason... a $E('select.mine') returns a "wrapped" select box, but I cant use the native .remove function to remove options, because mootools overloads it with one for removing the whole element. Mootools 1.2 doesnt have that problem since they got rid of the overloaded remove, but I'm stuck with 1.11 for now.

i think the issue is not necessarily getting the source element before it got enhanced by MooTools. it's more of finding a way to know how you can emulate the original purpose of remove() in vanilla JS with any of the available functions in MooTools 1.1.

emulating the original remove function is fairly easy, but I pass it to one of my framework functions... which I know have to modify. I was hopping there is something like in Greasemonkey... object.wrappedJSObject. Oh well, there might be no solution, except going to v1.2

If your wanting to remove an option in a select use the following

$('select.mine').options[i] = null;


replace the select.mine with the id of your select object and the i in the brackets with the number of the option is.

Here is an example on jsfiddle ..... http://jsfiddle.net/drkua/

If you hit run, then check out the colors you'll notice the Royal object is there, when you select Long Sleeves though ... it goes away, but you can't get it back without recreating it, it is totally removed from the dom until a refresh.

Is this what you where trying to accomplish?

Thats what I'm doing now. I kissed the .remove() function good-bye, although it seems the DOM preferred way for removing options... well, until you want you use .add() and IE messes it all up.