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    Mootools 1.2 Beginners Guide LITE: Getting started
    Mootools 1.2 Beginners Guide LITE: Getting started
    Mootools 1.2 Beginners Guide LITE: Getting started
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    Mootools 1.2 Beginners Guide LITE: Getting started

    By Jacob Gube and Garrick Cheung

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    This is a Packt Beginner's Guide, which means it is packed with clear step-by-step instructions for performing the most useful tasks in MooTools. You will learn by doing and you will start learning immediately. This book is perfect for MooTools newcomers. You do not require any familiarity with MooTools whatsoever, only a willingness to learn. Basic knowledge of JavaScript syntax and concepts is the only requirement. This book will allow you to grasp the basics of MooTools so that you will be well on the way to creating exciting, customizable web pages and applications.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 19, 2011
    ISBN9781849516259
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      Mootools 1.2 Beginners Guide LITE - Jacob Gube

      Table of Contents

      Mootools 1.2 Beginners Guide: LITE

      Credits

      About the Authors

      About the Reviewer

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

      Why Subscribe?

      Free Access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Time for action - heading

      What just happened?

      Pop quiz - heading

      Have a go hero - heading

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Writing JavaScript with MooTools

      Writing unobtrusive JavaScript with MooTools

      An obtrusive JavaScript example

      What's so bad about it?

      Don't repeat it if you don't have to

      It'll be hard to maintain

      It's a bad practice to have functionality in your content structure

      Time for action - rewriting our script unobtrusively

      What just happened?

      Removing our inline event handlers

      Using the DOM to handle events

      Pop quiz - rewriting our script unobstrusively

      Creating MooTools classes

      What the heck is a class?

      Real-world analogy

      Creating a MooTools class

      The Implements property

      The options property

      The initialize method

      Our own Dog class methods: .bark() and .sit()

      Time for action - creating an instance of Dog

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero - use the .sit() class method

      Time for action - giving our class instance some custom options

      Time for action - determining the value of our options

      Extending classes

      Time for action - extending the ShowDog class with the Dog class

      What just happened?

      Class inheritance

      Have a go hero - doing more with the thing

      Using MooTools classes

      The concept of chainability

      The Chain class

      A Chain example

      A look ahead: Chaining Fx .Tween

      Time for action - create a chain of Fx.Tween methods

      What just happened?

      Isn't MooTools classy?

      Chainability

      Have a go hero - doing more with chaining Fx.Tween methods

      Summary

      2. Selecting DOM Elements

      MooTools and CSS selectors

      Working with the $() and $$() functions

      The $() dollar function

      The $$() dollars function

      When to use which

      Time for action - selecting an element with the dollar function

      Time for action - selecting elements with the dollars function

      Time for action - selecting multiple sets of elements with the dollars function

      What just happened?

      $() versus document.getElementById()

      Selecting multiple sets of elements

      Have a go hero - tween the list item element

      Common errors with the dollar and dollars functions

      The dollar function doesn't work with CSS selectors!

      Drop the pound # sign when using the $() function

      Pop quiz - find the bad apple in the bunch

      Selection using pseudo-classes

      Pseudo-class example: Zebra striping a table

      Time for action - using pseudo-classes to zebra stripe a table

      What just happened?

      Other pseudo-class selectors

      Working with attribute selectors

      Attribute selector operators

      Attribute selector example: Styling different types of links

      Time for action - using = attribute selector

      Time for action - using != attribute selector

      Time for action - using ^= attribute selector

      Time for action - using $= attribute selector

      What just happened?

      Attribute selector case sensitivity

      DOM selection makes unobtrusive JavaScript do-able

      Summary

      3. Bringing Web Pages to Life with Animation

      MooTools' Fx class

      Basic syntax

      Fx options

      Animating a CSS property with Fx.Tween

      Time for action - creating a hide/show FAQ page

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero - modifying the hide/show transition effect

      Tweening a single CSS property using the tween() method

      Time for action - toggling the visibility of a div

      What just happened?

      Fading elements

      Time for action - fading an image in and out

      What just happened?

      Highlighting elements

      Time for action - indicating blank form fields that are required

      What just happened?

      Animating multiple CSS properties with Fx.Morph

      Time for action - enlarging an image

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero - modify the transition type

      Using the morph() shortcut method

      Time for action - experimenting with morph

      What just happened?

      Other Fx methods

      Starting an effect

      Setting properties immediately

      Cancelling a transition

      Pausing effect

      Resuming a paused effect

      Summary

      Index

      Mootools 1.2 Beginners Guide: LITE

      Mootools 1.2 Beginners Guide: LITE

      Copyright © 2011 Packt Publishing

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

      Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the authors, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

      Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

      First published: April 2011

      Production Reference: 2120511

      Published by Packt Publishing Ltd. 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK.

      ISBN 978-1-849516-24-2

      www.packtpub.com

      Cover Image by Vinayak Chittar ( <vinayak.chittar@gmail.com> )

      Credits

      Authors

      Jacob Gube

      Garrick Cheung

      Reviewer

      Chirstoph Pojer

      Acquisition Editor

      Douglas Paterson

      Technical Editor

      Ajay Shanker

      Indexer

      Hemangini Bari

      Production Coordinator

      Melwyn D’sa

      Cover Work

      Melwyn D’sa

      About the Authors

      Jacob Gube is a massive MooTools developer. He is the founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions, a website dedicated to web developers and web designers. He’s also

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