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Mootools Content Slider With Intervals

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To celebrate the official release of MooTools 1.2, I decided to post a quick tutorial on making a timed 'content slider' with the new version.  I needed to create one of these for a client this afternoon, so I coded one up from scratch... and I thought it might be useful to someone else needing to do something similar.  There may be a better method to accomplish this, so if you have one please share with us!

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Jazz Up Your Forms With MooTools Pt. 2

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In the second part of this tutorial, I'm going to show you how I did the live comment preview with the auto-expansion of the preview and the input textarea.  I'll be building upon the first part of this tutorial, so be sure to check that one out first if you haven't already.  So, let's get to it...

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Jazz Up Your Forms With MooTools Pt. 1

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I can't promise anything, but I plan on putting out at least one tutorial a month. For my very first one, we'll be dealing with MooTools and contact forms.  It's a bit lengthy, so I'm going to be breaking this up into two posts. There are four main things we'll tackle:

  • Animated field highlighting
  • Displaying/hiding instructions for each input field
  • Live comment previewing
  • Auto-resizing of both the comment preview and it's corresponding textarea input
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