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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

Using Firefox's Firebug to see MooTool stuff in action


Knowing how to see what has changed on the page is paramount; View | Source will not help us. The source that is displayed by any browser (View | Page Source in Firefox), is loaded only once when the page is requested. Any changes we make dynamically to the Document Object Model (DOM) are tracked by the DOM but the original page source itself is not updated.

Getting ready

Download the Firefox "Add-on", Firebug. This option is available from the Tools menu in Firefox. Search for "Firebug" and download the add-on, install it, and restart the browser.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Create a test page using the code below.

  2. 2. Right-click the DIV #canvas. Be sure to click the words that make up the HTML of the DIV: Right click here and choose "Inspect Element". Right-clicking the HTML of that DIV tells Firebug which element in the DOM to inspect.

  3. 3. While watching the Firebug HTML panel, click #go represented by the text Once Firebug is inspecting the DOM...