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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

By : Jay L Johnston
Book Image

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

Welcome visitors with a message that fades in for effect


In this recipe, you will learn how to fade in a block of text using color. Often, using a fade-in of a block of color will help users to orient themselves to what portion of the page is asking for attention.

Getting ready

Choose some text that needs to appear, perhaps an error message. Also, have a color palette in mind so that the design factor will not slow down the coding effort.

How to do it...

We begin with a recipe quite similar to the pop-up error injection recipe in Chapter 3, And on the 8th Day: Creating HTML Elements. The twist is that we fade in the error gently to increase the professionalism of the user interface. Note that we do not need the MooTools MORE in this recipe, though it is necessary for most of this chapter.

<script type="text/javascript"
src="mootools-1.3.0.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="javascript:" method="get">
<span id="my_error"></span>
<input id="submit...