**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Fri Jan 24 02:59:59 2014 Jan 24 06:19:59 ugh this is driving me crazy -_- Jan 24 08:02:02 GodGinrai: I think, that's how it's supposed to be. When create finishes, it's components might not yet be created - so this.$ isn't populated yet. Try moving your code from create to rendered... Jan 24 08:03:40 I have other code that uses the components right after this.inherited Jan 24 08:03:48 with no problem **** ENDING LOGGING AT Sat Jan 25 02:59:59 2014