Hi,
Coming from retool which offers access to every element on the app even nested/repeated ones.
There are so many cases I would need a property of an element of my page but how do I access them?
Without that, I would need a ton of variables and workflows to use as “external properties”. Or do I miss a big thing in weweb?
A simple example. I want to know if an input field is readonly at the moment and use it in javascript.
Like:
inputfield.readonly
If you’re good with javascript, you might use that for the job (e.g. querySelector or getElementById) to discover the state of that element at that point in time - or make adjustments.
Weweb’s flow is more variable → document component. This maps to how it is built on Vue. React works the same way. As opposed to other frameworks, like, say, jQuery (which Webflow uses much more) where the data is more kept in the document.
In both cases some vanilla JS gives us an escape hatch.