What this book covers

Chapter 1, Oldies-but-Goodies: Foundational Moo. Learn foundational MooTool basics like including MooTools in HTML, making and looping over arrays, grabbing elements, and dragging items!

Chapter 2, Switching Paddles Midstream: Changing HTML After Page Load. Delve into changing HTML after load with working examples of finding, moving, adding, and removing elements and groups of elements.

Chapter 3, And on the 8th Day: Creating HTML Elements. Create HTML elements like IFRAMEs, A tags, and form elements and inject them into tables, table rows, and div elements.

Chapter 4, That's Not All Folks: Animation and Scrolling. Animate the Internet with morphs, tweens, slides, and scrolls. Make thumbnails scroll and users drool.

Chapter 5, Mr. Clean Uses Ajax: Remote Asynchronous Calls. Fire remote Ajax calls, on page, bringing them into the Web 2.0 arena where user interfaces are cool and fun.

Chapter 6, Easy Come, Easy Go: Drag and Drop. Drag and drop your way to shopping carts and interfaces that create return users and Internet buzz.

Chapter 7, Knock and the Door Will Open: Events and Listeners. Open the door to flexibility and functionality by adding event listeners and chains of actions.

Chapter 8, Dynamite! (Movin' On Up): Working with Transitions. Use transitions to save space, welcome users, make ducks bounce, and golf balls roll.

Chapter 9, WTFudge is Going On?: Troubleshooting MooTools. Troubleshoot scripting issues with tools of the professional development trade.

Chapter 10, Enough Is Never Enough: Extending MooTools. MooTools is highly extensible and allows for simple extension of existing classes and DOM elements. Level up by extending MooTools with custom plugins.