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"Prototype 1.6 The Complete API Reference Sam Stephenson and the Prototype Team Prototype 1.6: The Complete API Reference Sam Stephenson and the Prototype Team Published March 2008. 1st edition for version 1.6 (v1.6.0.2). Copyright © 2006-2008 Sam Stephenson. Some rights reserved. Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. Prototype was created by Sam Stephenson who released the framework as an open-source project in February 2005. Other members of the core development team are: Thomas Fuchs, Justin Palmer, Andrew Dupont, Dan Webb, Scott Raymond, Mislav Marohni#, Christophe Porteneuve, Tobie Langel and Seth Dillingham. This PDF book version of the Prototype API reference was created by Josh Clark , but all content comes from the Prototype site and is the intellectual property of Sam Stephenson and the Prototype core team. This PDF is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 . This means that you can copy, redistribute or create your own derivative works from this PDF, provided that you do so with the same Creative Commons license and include the foregoing notice. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. 3 2 1 1 2 http://www.prototypejs.org/ http://www.globalmoxie.com/ 3 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Table of Contents 1. New in Prototype 1.6 ............................................................................................................1 Event API Enhancements ................................................................................................1 Complete rewrite of the Hash class ....................................................................................2 Function API Enhancements ............................................................................................3 Class API Enhancements .................................................................................................5 Ajax API Enhancements ..................................................................................................6 DOM API Enhancements ................................................................................................6 Template API Enhancements ...........................................................................................9 Extended grep semantics .................................................................................................9 Improved support for JavaScript 1.6 and WHATWG 1.0 standards ..................................... 10 2. Utility Methods .................................................................................................................. 11 $ .................................................................................................................................. 11 $$ ................................................................................................................................ 13 $A ............................................................................................................................... 15 $F ................................................................................................................................ 16 $H ............................................................................................................................... 16 $R ................................................................................................................................ 16 $w ................................................................................................................................ 17 Try.these ...................................................................................................................... 18 document.getElementsByClassName (deprecated) ................................................................ 18 3. Ajax .................................................................................................................................. 21 Ajax Options ................................................................................................................ 21 Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater ................................................................................................... 25 Ajax.Request ................................................................................................................. 28 Ajax.Responders ............................................................................................................ 32 Ajax.Response ............................................................................................................... 33 Ajax.Updater ................................................................................................................. 34 4. Array ................................................................................................................................ 37 Why you should stop using for…in to iterate (or never take it up) .................................... 37 What is a developer to do? .............................................................................................. 38 clear ............................................................................................................................. 39 clone ............................................................................................................................ 39 compact ....................................................................................................................... 39 each ............................................................................................................................. 40 first .............................................................................................................................. 40 flatten ........................................................................................................................... 40 from ............................................................................................................................ 40 indexOf ........................................................................................................................ 41 inspect .......................................................................................................................... 41 last ............................................................................................................................... 42 reduce .......................................................................................................................... 42 reverse .......................................................................................................................... 42 size .............................................................................................................................. 43 toArray ......................................................................................................................... 43 toJSON ........................................................................................................................ 43 uniq ............................................................................................................................. 43 without ......................................................................................................................... 44 5. Class ................................................................................................................................. 45 addMethods .................................................................................................................. 45 create ........................................................................................................................... 46 6. Date ................................................................................................................................. 49 toJSON ........................................................................................................................ 49 7. Element ............................................................................................................................ 51 Element as a constructor ................................................................................................ 52 The old way .................................................................................................................. 52 The new way ................................................................................................................. 52 absolutize ..................................................................................................................... 52 addClassName .............................................................................................................. 53 addMethods .................................................................................................................. 53 adjacent ........................................................................................................................ 56 ancestors ...................................................................................................................... 57 childElements ............................................................................................................... 58 classNames (deprecated) .................................................................................................... 58 cleanWhitespace ............................................................................................................ 59 clonePosition ................................................................................................................ 60 cumulativeOffset ........................................................................................................... 61 cumulativeScrollOffset ................................................................................................... 61 descendantOf ................................................................................................................ 61 descendants .................................................................................................................. 62 down ............................................................................................................................ 62 empty ........................................................................................................................... 64 extend .......................................................................................................................... 64 fire ............................................................................................................................... 65 firstDescendant ............................................................................................................. 66 getDimensions .............................................................................................................. 66 getElementsByClassName (deprecated) ............................................................................... 67 getElementsBySelector (deprecated) .................................................................................... 67 getHeight ...................................................................................................................... 68 getOffsetParent ............................................................................................................. 69 getStyle ......................................................................................................................... 69 getWidth ...................................................................................................................... 70 hasClassName ............................................................................................................... 70 hide .............................................................................................................................. 71 identify ......................................................................................................................... 72 immediateDescendants (deprecated) .................................................................................... 72 insert ............................................................................................................................ 73 vi | Prototype 1.6 inspect .......................................................................................................................... 73 makeClipping ................................................................................................................ 74 makePositioned ............................................................................................................. 74 match ........................................................................................................................... 75 next ............................................................................................................................. 76 nextSiblings .................................................................................................................. 77 observe ......................................................................................................................... 78 positionedOffset ............................................................................................................ 78 previous ....................................................................................................................... 79 previousSiblings ............................................................................................................ 80 readAttribute ................................................................................................................. 81 recursivelyCollect ........................................................................................................... 81 relativize ....................................................................................................................... 82 remove ......................................................................................................................... 82 removeClassName ......................................................................................................... 82 replace .......................................................................................................................... 83 scrollTo ........................................................................................................................ 84 select ............................................................................................................................ 85 setOpacity .................................................................................................................... 86 setStyle ......................................................................................................................... 86 show ............................................................................................................................ 87 siblings ......................................................................................................................... 89 stopObserving ............................................................................................................... 89 toggle ........................................................................................................................... 89 toggleClassName ........................................................................................................... 91 undoClipping ................................................................................................................ 91 undoPositioned ............................................................................................................. 91 up ................................................................................................................................ 93 update .......................................................................................................................... 94 viewportOffset .............................................................................................................. 96 visible ........................................................................................................................... 96 wrap ............................................................................................................................. 97 writeAttribute ................................................................................................................ 98 8. Enumerable ....................................................................................................................... 99 The context parameter ................................................................................................. 99 Aliases: it’s all about having it your way .......................................................................... 100 Using it efficiently ........................................................................................................ 100 collect, invoke, pluck and each: thinking about the use case ...................................... 100 reject and findAll vs. partition ............................................................................ 100 Mixing Enumerable in your own objects ....................................................................... 101 all .............................................................................................................................. 102 any ............................................................................................................................. 102 collect ........................................................................................................................ 103 detect ......................................................................................................................... 104 each ........................................................................................................................... 104 | vii eachSlice ..................................................................................................................... 106 entries ........................................................................................................................ 106 find ............................................................................................................................ 107 findAll ........................................................................................................................ 107 grep ........................................................................................................................... 108 inGroupsOf ................................................................................................................ 109 include ....................................................................................................................... 109 inject .......................................................................................................................... 110 invoke ........................................................................................................................ 110 map ........................................................................................................................... 111 max ....................................................................................................................."

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