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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By : Jay L Johnston
Book Image

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

Removing a group of elements using CSS selectors


Have an offending group of HTML elements? This task will obliterate them in one fell swoop.

Getting ready

CSS Selectors are used in styling to grab specific elements. This makes them a great way to also identify and group elements of our HTML DOM. Remember, grab single elements by their ID attributes; those are always unique on a page.

How to do it...

Grab groups of elements by CSS selector, most frequently by class. In our example, we use both class and tag CSS syntax to group together elements that we will remove.

<script type="text/javascript" src="mootools-1.3.0.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p class="remove"><span>The </span>
Fox jumped over the lazy dog.</p>
<p class="remove">Jack and Jill went up one <span>hill </span>
and down another.</p>
<p>By any other name, this <span>rose </span>
is still a rose.</p>
<p>The superhero towered <span...