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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 a DIV displaying an Ajax form response


The creation of new DOM elements with MooTools is elementary, as is calling asynchronous JavaScript requests, Ajax. Here we combine the two for a very reusable recipe where the results of a form submission are displayed on the same page as the request. Hook the Ajax call up to your server-side script and make form magic. To avoid the necessity of server-side scripting, we call our own HTML markup and display that in this example.

How to do it...

<form action="javascript:" method="get">
<input type="button" id="mybutton" value="Ajax and Response!"
onclick="ajax_it();"/>
</form>
<span id="put_it_here">Waiting for form submission...</span>
<script type="text/javascript">
// A
// make a new ajax request
var myJax = new Request({
// A1
url: '?',
// A2
onSuccess: function(response) {
// if the ajax is called twice, empty the div
$('put_it_here').empty();
// B
// make a new DOM element
var myDiv = new Element('div...