We discovered something interesting the other day. It turns out that if you manually apply an id to an element in the Identity inspector, it becomes a global variable. One immediate advantage of this is that you can very simply access properties of any element without having to search for the eleme…

Applying an id creates a global variable

MarkHunte (Mark Hunte) February 12, 2019, 1:22pm 3

Also just did a search and found where I first mention it..

It goes into some discussion on why you should avoid it and @jonathan provides a link explaining
but a simple google search reveals all..