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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


Now open up the Chrome browser with the developer tools visible console, and we will begin to learn about the DTHMLX toolbar object. We will attach a toolbar, add toolbar items, and bind events.

Initialization choices

The DHTMLX toolbar can be initiated in two ways. The first way is by attaching it to a DOM element. The second way is by attaching it to an existing DHTMLX layout or cell.

Initialization on a DOM element

First we will attach a toolbar to a DOM element. For these exercises, we will be using the same web page as the application. To test attaching a toolbar to a DOM element, we must first clear the page and create an element inside the body tag. We will do this with JavaScript.

Type and run the following code line in the console:

document.body.innerHTML = "<div id='myToolbarCont'></div>";

We just cleared the contents of the body and replaced it with a div tag that has the id attribute of myToolbarCont.

Next initialize and attach a toolbar to that div...