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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

The YUI TabView Control


A visit to almost any area of the expansive Yahoo! web portal is practically guaranteed to result in your exposure to a TabView Control in action. It's easy to see why; tabbed content is both attractive and functional, and helps to maximize the content on any one page without overcrowding it.

Unlike manually creating your own tabbed interface, which takes a lot of time, skill, and of course, debugging, using the TabView Control is both quick and easy. It is constructed using a logical unordered list, and like many of the library components, it can be built from underlying markup or entirely from simple JavaScript.

Whether your TabView Control is built from HTML or script, its API provides a rich and varied set of configuration attributes, methods, and events that allow us to programmatically switch between tabs, create, or destroy them, and manipulate the content contained in them with ease.

To make more of a visual impact with our tabbed Content Containers, we can...