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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

Making a little duck bounce when clicked


This is arguably useful at best, but, goodness gracious, it is goobly goblets of fun!

Getting ready

Position the standing and bouncing versions of our duck, stacked in absolute positioning so that the standing version obscures the bouncing version.

<div id="main">
<div id="duck_it">
<img src="08_duck_bounce.jpg" alt="Ouch!"
title="Ouch!" id="bounce"/>
<img src="08_duck_stand.jpg" alt="Click me!"
title="Click me!" id="stand"/>
</div>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
#main { width:600px; margin:auto; }
#duck_it { margin-top:10px; cursor:pointer; }
#duck_it img { position:absolute; }
</style>

How to do it...

The last recipe made brief notice of another Fx property of the Element class. Within the onStart and onComplete options of Element.tween, use Element.fade(), passing it the proper keyword to immediately show or hide the appropriate image.

Note

The special methods onStart and onComplete allow us to be...