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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

Creating an IFRAME that displays google.com


Getting ready

In preparation for this one, some back-story is warranted. One useful tag in the HTML specification was not always supported by all major browsers, the IFRAME. The tag is now supported by all major browsers.

How to do it...

Use the SRC attribute to set the external or internal page to be displayed within this specified division of the page.

<form action="javascript:" method="get">
<input id="submit" type="button" value="i can has search?"/>
</form>
<noscript>JavaScript is disabled.</noscript>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('submit').addEvent('click', function() {
// use mootools to create an iframe element
new Element('iframe', {
'src' : 'http://google.com',
'frameborder': 1,
'width' : 800,
'height' : 400
}).replaces($('submit'));
});
</script>

How it works...

In creating our IFRAME via MooTools, we make use of the class Element, feeding it the IFRAME tag as the first argument and the key...