The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in Java Script, 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 Java Script programming, as well as strengthen your understanding of the DOM and CSS.
You will learn to create a number of powerful Java Script controls that can be used straight away in your own applications.
Learning the Yahoo! User Interface Library introduces the popular open-source YUI Java Script 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.
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 for
This book is for web developers comfortable with Java Script 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.
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