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Why Bubbling?

2007-06-17
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Bubbling means that the event is given to the target, and then its parent, and then its parent, and so on until the event is canceled.

Suppose you have 100 draggable objects.
  • You could attach 100 sets of event handlers to those objects.
  • Or you could attach one set of event handlers to the container of the 100 objects.

Why Cancel Bubbling?

Cancel bubbling to keep the parent nodes from seeing the event using YUI's cancelBubble method.

Why Prevent Default Action?

An event handler can prevent a browser action associated with the event (such as submitting a form) using YUI's preventDefault method.

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Understanding Events

After reading the Christian Heilmann's paper about Event-Driven Web Application Design, I started digging and playing around with the YUI Custom Event, and I decided to create my own library to simplify the use of the Event-Driven technique, extending the YUI base functionality to easily define functionalities for different components in a webpage, specially if this webpage has dynamic areas, and this areas will be changing constantly using AJAX. Read More
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Accordion Manager
This YUI Widget will allow you to create expandable and collapsible areas using the correct HTML and CSS, but without writing a single line of javascript code. (new)

Loading Mask
The Loading Mask widget will hide all the page's content until the onLoad's event, which mean that the website will not be displayed until the current page be fully loaded. Also this widget can be used in conjunction with the YUI Connection Manager to block the actions over the page until the AJAX's request finish. (new)

 
Hot Components

Accordion Manager
Create expandable and collapsible areas using the correct HTML and CSS, but without writing a single line of javascript code. (released)

Bubbling Core
The bubbling core now include a generic communication mechanism for widget2widget, widget2browser and widget2server messages. (updated lately)

Tooltip Manager
Improved, now using the YUI Overlay instead YUI Tooltips, also introduce a new feature, "content onDemand" using the YUI connection manager. (updated lately)

 
Coming Soon

Bubbling Library for YUI 3.x
A new version of the Bubbling Library compatible with the NEW YUI 3.x. (comming soon)

 
Bubbling Radar

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These guys from Mexico have been using the Bubbling, and the dispatcher for a while, cheers for them. (spanish website)

 
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Event-Driven Web Application Design
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Related Links

Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)
YUI Official Website at the Yahoo! Developer Network.

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