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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By : Jay L Johnston
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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By: Jay L Johnston

Overview of this book

MooTools is a JavaScript framework that abstracts the JavaScript language. JavaScript itself, complex in syntax, provides the tools to write a layer of content interaction for each different browser. MooTools abstracts those individual, browser-specific layers to allow cross-browser scripting in an easy-to-read and easy-to-remember syntax. Animation and interaction, once the domain of Flash, are being taken by storm by the MooTools JavaScript framework, which can cause size, shape, color, and opacity to transition smoothly. Discover how to use AJAX to bring data to today's web page users who demand interactivity without clunky page refreshes. When searching for animation and interactivity solutions that work, MooTools 1.3 Cookbook has individual, reusable code examples that get you running fast! MooTools 1.3 Cookbook readies programmers to animate, perform AJAX, and attach event listeners in a simple format where each section provides a clear and cross-browser compatible sketch of how to solve a problem, whether reading from beginning to finish or browsing directly to a particular recipe solution. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook provides instant solutions to MooTools problems – whatever you want to do with MooTools, this book will tell you how to do it. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook is presented in a progressive order that builds concepts and ideas, while simultaneously being a collection of powerful individual, standalone, recipe solutions.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Injecting a "TD" data cell into a "TR" table row


One great use of asynchronous calls is to update tabular data. This example bypasses the external request for data and uses data statically defined so that we may concentrate on the injection of the TD data cell into an on-page data row.

Plan out on paper or in your mind's eye just what data will be changing. Even mocking up an example layout of the page, post-change, can really help us to write code that is more succinct, and does exactly what we need it to without passing through intermediate steps.

How to do it...

Create an initial table in which we can inject new information. Store in client-side code, static data that can be looped over and injected into the table upon each click of a button.

<h1>World's Coolest Superheroes<h1>
<table border="1">
<tr id="marble">
<td>Spider-Man</td>
<td>Iron Man</td>
<td>Hulk</td>
</tr>
</table>
<form action="javascript:" method...