Recently, I had the need to determine if a YAHOO.widget.TextNode with a specific label existed within a parent node, also an instance of YAHOO.widget.TextNode. I decided to create a custom YAHOO.widget.TextNode by extending the class. This is the first time I've tried to use any OO javascript. I was quite pleased with how easy I could extend any class. Thanks mostly to the excellent documentation provided by Yahoo.

Here's how I did it:

I started by creating node.js to hold my class definition:

I created a custom namespace "JTC.widget"

Create a constructor with the same signature as YAHOO.widget.TextNode and chain the superclass constructor.

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