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Instant IntroJs

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Instant IntroJs

Overview of this book

IntroJs is a JavaScript and CSS3 library, used to create simple step-by-step help pages or introductions for websites and applications to show the users new features or whole application parts quickly and concisely. Instant IntroJs is a reference to get started with IntroJs right away. Instant IntroJs teaches you how to work with key IntroJs methods and events to create awesome step-by-step introductions. This book contains numerous examples of introductions and help pages with detailed explanations. It also shows you how to customize the library with your preferred stylesheet or integrate it with other server-side frameworks. Instant IntroJs teaches you how to work with the IntroJs API, methods, and events to create step-by-step introductions for websites and applications. This book will give you the knowledge to make the preferred changes to IntroJs in order to build a customized introduction. Instant IntroJs provides many examples of introductions and helps you with using HTML attributes and JSON configurations, as well as some descriptions about how to use and integrate IntroJs with other server-side libraries, such as Ruby on Rails and PHP Yii. You will be provided with information about the latest features of IntroJs that include multi-page introductions, creating introductions using JSON configuration and HTML attributes, methods to change or customize the library, and more. Instant IntroJs provides full and detailed examples of step-by-step introductions to help you easily learn and use the latest version of the IntroJs library.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Chapter 1. Instant IntroJs

Welcome to the Instant IntroJs. This book has been especially created to provide you with all the information that you need to get set up with IntroJs. You will learn the basics of IntroJs, get started with building your first step-by-step introduction, and discover some tips.

This document contains the following sections:

So, what is IntroJs? helps you find out out what IntroJs actually is, and what you can do with it.

Installation teaches how to download and install IntroJs with minimum fuss, and then set it up so that you can use it as soon as possible.

Quick start shows you how to perform one of the core tasks of IntroJs—creating basic introductions. Follow the steps to create your own basic introduction, which will be the basis of most of your work in IntroJs.

Top 7 features you need to know about teaches how to perform some tasks with the most important features of IntroJs. By the end of this section, you will be able to customize IntroJs with your preferred stylesheet, use IntroJs options and public APIs, change button labels or localize them with your language, use IntroJs with Rails, PHP Yii, and other frameworks, use IntroJs callback functions and events, build and minify the library, define introductions with JSON configurations, and also create a multipage introduction or help.

People and places you should get to know provides you with many useful links to the project pages and forums, as well as a number of helpful articles, tutorials, samples, blogs, and the Twitter feeds of IntroJs super contributors. This is because every open source project is centered around a community.