Learning Salesforce Lightning Application Development

$auraTemp

This section describes a few commands that you can run in the browser console to inspect the DOM and get its attribute values. Let's take a look at them with the help of an example:

• Clicking on the component and executing $auraTemp+"" in the Chrome developer Console shows the component.
• $auraTemp.getElement() shows the actual DOM elements of the components.
• To inspect the component by opening the console, use inspect($auraTemp.getElement()). This will navigate you to the Chrome console directly and select the DOM element for inspection.
• To get the attribute values that are on the component, run the following command in the Developer Console:

$auraTemp.get("v.attributeName");//Note that here attributeName is the name of the attribute ...