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Dan Wellman

Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library

Develop your next generation web applications with the YUI JavaScript development library.

Improve your coding and productivity with the YUI Library
Gain a thorough understanding of the YUI tools
Learn from detailed examples for common tasks

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Table of Contents Book Details

Language English
Paperback 380 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date March 2008
ISBN 1847192327
ISBN 13 978-1-847192-32-5
Author(s) Dan Wellman
Topics and Technologies Open Source, AJAX, Web Development

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Learning the Yahoo! User Interface Library introduces the popular open-source YUI JavaScript library and takes the user through each of the fully released components in detail looking at the classes that make up each component and the properties and methods that can be used. It includes a series of practical examples to reinforce how each component should/can be used. Author Dan Wellman takes the reader from beginner to advanced-level YUI usage and understanding.

In Detail

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML, and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

This book covers all released components whether utility, control, core file, or CSS tool. Methods of the YAHOO Global Object are used and discussed throughout the book.
The basics of each control will be presented, along with a detailed example showing its use to create complex, fully featured, cross-browser, Web 2.0 user interfaces.

Besides giving you a deep understand of the YUI library, this book will expand your knowledge of object-oriented JavaScript programming, as well as strengthen your understanding of the DOM and CSS.

You will learn to create a number of powerful JavaScript controls that can be used straight away in your own applications.
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What you will learn from this book

Explore the YUI Library—utilities, controls, core files, and CSS tools
Install the library and get up and running with it
Handle DOM manipulation and scripting
Get inside Event Handling with YUI
Create consistent web pages using YUI CSS tools
Work with Containers—implementation, skinning, adding transitions, and tabs
Debug, maintain, and update applications with the Logger control
Examples included in the book:

    Calendar interface
    Autocomplete
    Creating panels
    Dialogs
    Custom tooltips
    Forms
    Split button
    TreeView Control
    Browser History Manager with Calendar
    Simple animation
    Custom animation
    Creating tabs and adding content dynamically
    Dragging and dropping
    Implementing sliders
    Logger at work
    Logging custom classes

Approach

The book is a tutorial, leading the reader first through the basics of the YUI library before moving on to more complex examples involving the YUI controls and utilities. The book is heavily example driven, and based around an approach of tinkering and extending to improve.

Who this book is written for

This book is for web developers comfortable with JavaScript and CSS, who want to use the YUI library to easily put together rich, responsive web interfaces. No knowledge of the YUI library is presumed.

Author(s)

Dan Wellman

Dan Wellman lives with his wife and three children in his home town of Southampton on the south coast of England. By day his mild-mannered alter-ego works for a small yet accomplished e-commerce production agency. By night he battles the forces of darkness and fights for truth, justice, and less intrusive JavaScript.

He has been writing computer-related articles, tutorials, and reviews for around five years and is rarely very far from a keyboard of some description.