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YUI 2.8: Learning the Library

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YUI 2.8: Learning the Library

Overview of this book

The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls written in JavaScript for building Rich Internet Applications, across all major browsers and independently of any server technology. There's a lot of functionality baked into YUI, but getting to and understanding that functionality is not for the faint of heart. This book gives you a clear picture of YUI through a step-by-step approach, packed with lots of examples.YUI 2.8: Learning the Library covers all released (non-beta) components of the YUI 2.8 Library in detail with plenty of working examples, looking at the classes that make up each component and the properties and methods that can be used. It includes a series of practical examples to reinforce how each component should/can be used, showing its use to create complex, fully featured, cross-browser, Web 2.0 user interfaces. It has been updated from its first edition with the addition of several chapters covering several new controls and enriched with lots of experience of using them.You will learn to create a number of powerful JavaScript controls that can be used straightaway in your own applications. Besides giving you a deep understanding of the YUI library, this book will expand your knowledge of object-oriented JavaScript programming, as well as strengthen your understanding of the DOM and CSS. The final chapter describes many of the tools available to assist you the developer in debugging, maintaining, and ensuring the best quality in your code. In this new edition, all the examples have been updated to use the most recent coding practices and style and new ones added to cover newer components. Since the basic documentation for the library is available online, the focus is on providing insight and experience.The authors take the reader from beginner to advanced-level YUI usage and understanding.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
YUI 2.8 Learning the Library
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Preface

Chapter 11. Rich Text Editor

Long gone are the days when we struggled to highlight a word in an e-mail message for lack of underlining or boldfacing. The rich graphic environment that the Web provides has extended to anything we do on it; plain text is no longer fashionable.

YUI includes a Rich Text Editor (RTE) component in two varieties—the basic YAHOO.widget.SimpleEditor and the full YAHOO.widget.Editor. Both editors are very simple to include in a web page and they enable our visitors to enter richly formatted documents, that we can easily read and use in our applications. Beyond that, the RTE is highly customizable and allows us to tailor the editor that we show the user, in any way we want.

In this chapter, we'll see:

  • What each of the two editors offers

  • How to create either of them

  • Ways to retrieve the text entered

  • How to add toolbar commands