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

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

Learning the Yahoo! User Interface Library introduces the popular open-source YUI JavaScript 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.

From the Back Cover

In this book, you'll learn:

    *Where CSS, HTML, and the DOM fit into modern scripting, and how to use them together effectively
    *OOP techniques for more efficient JavaScript coding
    *How to use JavaScript libraries such as Prototype in your work
    *How to build effective form validation into your applications using Ajax
    *How to create mashups using APIs
    *How to build dynamic user interfaces

Ajax, or the technology that lets you create Web pages in which information can be updated without refreshing the entire page, is the latest rage in Web site design. But for those who aren't hard-core programmers, enhancing pages using Ajax can be a challenge. Even more of a challenge is making sure those pages work for all users.

Pro JavaScript Techniques is the ultimate JavaScript book for the modern web developer. It provides everything you need to know about modern JavaScript, and shows what JavaScript can do for your web sites. This book doesn't waste any time looking at things you already know, like basic syntax and structures.

We wrote this book to provide you with a collection of proven, modern techniques that you can refer to every day to get the most out of the time you put into your web development projects, from start to finish. You know the basics of CSS, and you don't need a guide to evangelize the merits of web standards-based development - you already know it all. Instead, we wanted to focus on context, and how each of the techniques we present fit into the lifecycle of a real-world professional project.