Prototype js library

Prototype

An object-oriented JavaScript framework

Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. It offers a familiar class-style OO framework, extensive Ajax support, higher-order programming constructs, and easy DOM manipulation.

 

Using Prototype

To use Prototype in your application, download the latest release from the Prototype web site (http://prototypejs.org/download) and copy dist/prototype.js to a suitable location. Then include it in your HTML like so:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/prototype.js"></script>

 

Documentation http://api.prototypejs.org/

http://prototypejs.org/learn/

Tutorials

This area contains narrative documentation you can use to discover Prototype.

• Defining classes and inheritance

  Learn how to define classes and subclasses in Prototype and how to make supercalls.

• How Prototype extends the DOM

  Learn how Prototype adds custom methods to DOM element nodes — and how you can define your own custom methods.

• Introduction to Ajax

  Learn how Prototype simplifies the most common kinds of Ajax requests.

• Introduction to JSON

  Learn about Prototype's support for JSON encoding and decoding.

• Event delegation

  Learn about Prototype's support for event delegation: an advanced technique for event-driven programming.

• Measuring elements' dimensions and offsets

  Learn how Prototype makes it easy to get pixel measurements of elements.