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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By : Jay L Johnston
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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By: Jay L Johnston

Overview of this book

MooTools is a JavaScript framework that abstracts the JavaScript language. JavaScript itself, complex in syntax, provides the tools to write a layer of content interaction for each different browser. MooTools abstracts those individual, browser-specific layers to allow cross-browser scripting in an easy-to-read and easy-to-remember syntax. Animation and interaction, once the domain of Flash, are being taken by storm by the MooTools JavaScript framework, which can cause size, shape, color, and opacity to transition smoothly. Discover how to use AJAX to bring data to today's web page users who demand interactivity without clunky page refreshes. When searching for animation and interactivity solutions that work, MooTools 1.3 Cookbook has individual, reusable code examples that get you running fast! MooTools 1.3 Cookbook readies programmers to animate, perform AJAX, and attach event listeners in a simple format where each section provides a clear and cross-browser compatible sketch of how to solve a problem, whether reading from beginning to finish or browsing directly to a particular recipe solution. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook provides instant solutions to MooTools problems – whatever you want to do with MooTools, this book will tell you how to do it. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook is presented in a progressive order that builds concepts and ideas, while simultaneously being a collection of powerful individual, standalone, recipe solutions.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Extending elements—preventing multiple form submissions


Imagine a scenario where click-happy visitors may undo normalcy by double-clicking the submit button, or perhaps an otherwise normal albeit impatient user might click it a second time. Submit buttons frequently need to be disabled or removed using client-side code for just such a reason.

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Users that double-click everything

It is not entirely known where double-clicking users originated from. Some believe that single-clicking-users needed to be able to double-click to survive in the wild. They therefore began to grow gills and double-click links, buttons, and menu items. Others maintain that there was a sudden, large explosion in the vapors of nothingness that resulted in hordes of users that could not fathom the ability of a link, button, or menu item that could be opened with just a single click. Either way, they are out there, and they mostly use Internet Explorer and are quickly identifiable by how they type valid URLs into search...