Archive for the ‘MooTools’ Category

MooTools Offline Documentation

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

OK, so these days having your internet cut isn’t as commonplace as it used to be, but it does happen and during those times you realise the beautiful place the internet has in your life. :)

Anyways, I can usually get by and continue with some offline coding, but there’s always that little occasion where you forget those commands in MooTools, and wish you could just pop onto the site and check it out. (more…)

Binding just got easier

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

When coding in mootools, a lot of function binding goes on in my case. In fact, pretty much every time I call a class method I want it bound to the class. Jan Kassens comes to the rescue with a simple method which enables your class functions to be bound upon initialization. If you find yourself using .bind(this) a lot, this could make your code much prettier. (more…)

Phatfusion Image Menu Mootools 1.2 compatability fix

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Samuel Birch created a great image menu which can be found here at Phatfusion. I was upgrading some bits on a site for the lovely Mootools 1.2 release and as a result I had to make a small change to get imagemenu to work. (more…)

Table of Contents generator for anchors with MooTools

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

For those pages with loads of text a table of contents would be nice, with anchors located in relevant sections. Thing is that going through a page with thousands of words and headings is no fun at all.

I made a script using the lovely MooTools that gets all the elements with a given CSS selector (using the Elements.Selectors syntax) and then builds an unordered list of links, with the element text as the title, and an anchor placed in that element. (more…)