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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:

• Scriptaculous-Ajax.pdf.
  Free for personal use.

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

• scriptaculous.zip.
  Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.

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

Tutorial section:

• Scriptaculous-Effects.pdf.
  Free for personal use.

Topics:

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

Source code

• scriptaculous.zip.
  Web app used in this section, bundled as a MyEclipse project.