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MooTools 1.2 Beginner's Guide

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MooTools 1.2 Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

MooTools is a simple-to-use JavaScript library, ideal for people with basic JavaScript skills who want to elevate their web applications to a superior level. If you're a newcomer to MooTools looking to build dynamic, rich, and user-interactive web site applications this beginner's guide with its easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions is all you need to rapidly get to grips with MooTools.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
MooTools 1.2 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

Discovering a handful of MooTools More plugins


There are—at the time of this writing—over 40 MooTools plugins available on the MooTools site, and there's no indication that this collection will stop growing as more and more developers contribute their own work to share to their fellow coders. Though we won't get to use all of the plugins in the More collection, we will certainly see a handful of them in action in this chapter.

By using a few plugins, I hope that you see just how great More plugins are, how they uphold the MooTools way of reducing the amount of code you have to write, and that I prompt you to explore other More plugins to enhance your JavaScripts.

To find full documentation of each MooTools More plugin, check out the official MooTools More docs pages at: http://mootools.net/docs/more

We'll start with a plugin we already have in hand, Fx. Accordion.

Creating engaging content using Fx.Accordion

Fx.Accordion is a class for making a group of elements, whose visibility is toggled...