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YUI 2.8: Learning the Library

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YUI 2.8: Learning the Library

Overview of this book

The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls written in JavaScript for building Rich Internet Applications, across all major browsers and independently of any server technology. There's a lot of functionality baked into YUI, but getting to and understanding that functionality is not for the faint of heart. This book gives you a clear picture of YUI through a step-by-step approach, packed with lots of examples.YUI 2.8: Learning the Library covers all released (non-beta) components of the YUI 2.8 Library in detail with plenty of working examples, looking at the classes that make up each component and the properties and methods that can be used. It includes a series of practical examples to reinforce how each component should/can be used, showing its use to create complex, fully featured, cross-browser, Web 2.0 user interfaces. It has been updated from its first edition with the addition of several chapters covering several new controls and enriched with lots of experience of using them.You will learn to create a number of powerful JavaScript controls that can be used straightaway in your own applications. Besides giving you a deep understanding of the YUI library, this book will expand your knowledge of object-oriented JavaScript programming, as well as strengthen your understanding of the DOM and CSS. The final chapter describes many of the tools available to assist you the developer in debugging, maintaining, and ensuring the best quality in your code. In this new edition, all the examples have been updated to use the most recent coding practices and style and new ones added to cover newer components. Since the basic documentation for the library is available online, the focus is on providing insight and experience.The authors take the reader from beginner to advanced-level YUI usage and understanding.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
YUI 2.8 Learning the Library
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 6. Content Containers and Tabs

Content can live in all kinds of containers, usually <div> elements, <p> elements, and the like. When using the YUI, you have a whole range of new containers in which to keep your content, each of which is designed to meet the needs of a specific implementation. In this chapter we'll be looking at all of them in detail.

A tabbed interface allows you to fit more content together on the same page without cluttering it up, distributing related items across different tabs. Doing this manually can lead to design nightmares, so the TabView control from the YUI Library can really help you to cut corners code-wise without sacrificing presentational style or functionality.

While the Container and TabView controls are completely separate, tabs can still be looked upon as Content Containers, which is why these two controls have been included together in this chapter.

Skills that you will take away from this chapter include:

  • The primary purpose of each...