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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 "A" tag link that alters the src of an IFRAME


Imagine how our alarm clock works. We set a listener, so to speak, on the device such that it listens and waits for the action of the time we wish to receive an alarm. In our HTML DOM, we can add listening events as properties when we create an element. When the listener is fired, the defined action will execute!

How to do it...

Create an anchor tag, set a listener on it, and define the action to take when the listener is activated, in other words, do something when the link is clicked:

<iframe id="miframe" src="http://bing.com" width="800" height="400"></iframe>
<style type="text/css">
a { cursor:pointer; display:block; color:#00F; text-decoration:underline; font-size:20px; }
</style>
<noscript>JavaScript is disabled.</noscript>
<script type="text/javascript">
// create an a tag to add to the dom
var bung = new Element('a',{
'text': 'Google, please.'
});
// put a listener on our a tag
bung...