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PHP Ajax Cookbook

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PHP Ajax Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
PHP Ajax Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Rotating content


Scrolling content with effects in the iPhone and Mac OS is very attractive. In Web 2.0 sites, too, we sometimes require to fly or scroll the contents. That content rotation is usually needed for news tickers, announcement scrollers, stylish effects to present content like slideshows, and so on. The jQuery ecosystem has lot of plugins for that purpose. However, the jQuery.scrollTo plugin is relatively simple, provides lot of effects, and can therefore effectively be used in many situations.

Getting ready

Along with the jQuery core library, we'll require the jQuery.scrollTo plugin from http://plugins.jquery.com/project/ScrollTo.

How to do it...

Here, we'll see how to scroll the content of the div container dynamically, using JavaScript. Initially, the HTML markup is straightforward, with a div container and links to trigger scroll down or up events.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns...