YUI 2.8: Learning the Library

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

Key Features

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

Book Description

The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls written in JavaScript for building Rich Internet Applications, across all major browsers and independently of any server technology. There's a lot of functionality baked into YUI, but getting to and understanding that functionality is not for the faint of heart. This book gives you a clear picture of YUI through a step-by-step approach, packed with lots of examples.YUI 2.8: Learning the Library covers all released (non-beta) components of the YUI 2.8 Library in detail with plenty of working examples, 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, showing its use to create complex, fully featured, cross-browser, Web 2.0 user interfaces. It has been updated from its first edition with the addition of several chapters covering several new controls and enriched with lots of experience of using them.You will learn to create a number of powerful JavaScript controls that can be used straightaway in your own applications. Besides giving you a deep understanding 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. The final chapter describes many of the tools available to assist you the developer in debugging, maintaining, and ensuring the best quality in your code. In this new edition, all the examples have been updated to use the most recent coding practices and style and new ones added to cover newer components. Since the basic documentation for the library is available online, the focus is on providing insight and experience.The authors take the reader from beginner to advanced-level YUI usage and understanding.

What you will learn

• Explore the YUI Library s 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
• Use rich user interface controls
• Communicate with external sources of data
• Debug, maintain, and update applications
• Examples included in the book:
• Calendar interface
• Autocomplete
• Creating panels
• Dialogs
• Custom tooltips
• Forms
• Split button
• TreeView Control
• Browser History Manager with Calendar
• Simple and custom animations
• Creating tabs and adding content dynamically
• Dragging and dropping
• Implementing sliders
• DataTable Control
• Rich Text Editor
• Creating Menus
• Creating custom controls with Element
• Connecting with web services and other sources

Who this book is 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.