Difference between $$ and $

Question

what is Difference between "$$" and "$"?

$$('#items li').each( function(item) {
  item.observe('click', function(event) {
    doSomethingWith(event.target);
  });
});

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$('items').observe('click', function(event) {
  if (event.target.tagName === 'LI') {
    doSomethingWith(event.target);
  }
});

Answer 1

See the Prototype.js documentation

$ — id (String | Element) — A DOM node or a string that references a node's ID

$$(cssRule...) — Takes an arbitrary number of CSS selectors (strings) and returns a document-order array of extended DOM elements that match any of them.