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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

Using Firebug to view the scripts included on a page


Firebug is the best way to catch our JavaScript errors; it can also give us short cuts to seeing the included JavaScript files.

Getting ready

Open a page that has one or more JavaScript files included via SCRIPT tags. The code snippets in the book include one for just this purpose, though, any of them will do.

How to do it...

Open the Firebug window and click the Script tab. The horizontal bar beneath the tab list will have a drop-down that shows the name of the URI, for instance, 09-05.html. This drop-down menu will have a list of each script that is included. Visible in the list, if viewing the scripts for 09-05.html, will be 09-05.html, mootools-1.3.0.js, and mootools-more-1.3.0.js.

Clicking on any of these files will load the source into the panel for review.

There's more

The scripts panel allows us to do a lot more than just review static sources. This full-power debugger lets us interact with scripts. Clicking on the line numbers sets...