Let's see what the highlight method can do for us. We're going to use it on a web form.
First we'll set up the form's HTML.
<form action="" method=""> <p> <label for="firstName">First Name:</label> <input name="firstName" type="text" /> </p> <p> <label for="lastName">Last Name:</label> <input name="lastName" type="text" /> </p> <p> <label for="email">Email:</label> <input name="email" type="text" /> </p> </form>
Then we target all the input elements and add a focus event listener to them. When an input field is focused on, we grab its parent (p) element and then run the highlight method on that element to animate its background color.
$$('input').addEvent('focus', function(){ this.getParent('p').highlight(); });
Let's see what happens when we pass one color value to the method as an argument. This effectively functions as the...