Prototype Tips

This page is for links to simple tips and tricks for someone new to Prototype, simple pages that demonstrate how you do simple things with the framework. For more in-depth articles, check out the How Tos.

• Tip - Hooking Events
• Tip - Unhooking Events
• Tip - Run Code When DOM Loads
• Tip - Looping Through Arrays
• Tip - Avoiding Unnecessary Closures When Looping
• Tip - Fetching Radio Button Value
• Tip - Determining Dimensions of element inside hidden container
• Tip - Using an Instance Method as a Callback or Event Handler
• Tip - Minimizing Download Times
• Tip - Scripting Dynamically-Loaded Elements
• Tip - Extending TimedObserver
• Tip - Getting last descendant of an Element
• Tip - Using Element.show() and Element.hide() with css
• Tip - Using $H With PHP json_encode()
• Tip - You probably don't need bindAsEventListener()
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