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Scriptaculous Tutorial

An Introduction to the
script.aculo.us JavaScript Framework

This Scriptaculous tutorial is derived from Marty Hall's world-renowned live Ajax and GWT training courses. The topics in this tutorial also appear in Marty's more general Ajax and GWT tutorials.

Available free for university faculty: The original PowerPoint versions of the tutorials are available free for university faculty in certain cases. Please see instructor usage rules for details.


The Script.acul.us JavaScript Library
Part I: Ajax Support

Tutorial section:

Topics:

  • Overview of Scriptaculous
  • Installation and documentation
  • Autocomplete textfields
    • Local version
    • Ajax version
  • In-place Editor
    • Free-text values
    • Values from combo box

Source code


The Script.acul.us JavaScript Library
Part II: Visual Effects

Tutorial section:

Topics:

  • Overview of Visual Effects
  • Installation and documentation
  • Highlighting
  • Showing/hiding elements
  • Moving, resizing, and styling elements
  • Effect options

Source code