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Learning DHTMLX Suite UI

By : Eli Geske
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Learning DHTMLX Suite UI

By: Eli Geske

Overview of this book

JavaScript applications provide an excellent user experience for small to large scale enterprise applications. The amazing growth of JavaScript has opened the door for many great libraries such as DHTMLX. "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI" will teach you how to use these libraries effectively so you can make presentations that will take your employer's/ client's breath away! "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI" is a step-by-step guide that will teach you the basics of DHTMLX library components and how to apply them in a real-world scenario. This book will start with the installation of DHTMLX before moving on to explore the features of DHTMLX and helping you to create your first user management application. "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI" will guide you through the installation of DHTMLX as a single-page application. As you progress from one chapter to the next, you will gradually build a simple user management application. You will also learn how to create forums with validation and how to use grids to add and edit users. The book will also suggest the best practices for using toolbars and refreshing data. With "Learning DHTMLX Suite UI Guide", you will be inspired to come up with your own great ideas for your future application development projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning DHTMLX Suite UI
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The methods and events


The DHTMLX layout is made up predominantly of two object types, one being the layout itself and secondly the cells which are its children. Why is this important to know? Some of the same methods can be called on either the layout object or the cell objects. But there are differences as you will see.

Now, open up the application in the Chrome browser with the developer tools console available. We will begin attaching layouts and learning the different methods and events which will help us better understand how the application is being developed.

Initialization

Initialization of a layout component can be done in two ways: by attaching a new layout object to an existing cell, or by attaching it to a DOM element on the page.

We will first attach a layout component to a DOM element and learn how to access the cells.

In your console type and run the following code:

new dhtmlXLayoutObject(document.body);

You should see a new three cell layout with a header of a, b, and c.

Let's clear...