Ajax for Web Application Developers

Chapter 10. Accordion Adding massive amounts of data to one web page is not a recommended design approach because it can be completely disorienting to the user, and might cause him to go to another site. There are always exceptions, though, ...

Getting Started In order to get started we must do a few things first. We must define an XML structure for the object to accept, which will be scalable and grow with a large application. Once we have defined this data structure we must then create...

Creating the Accordion Object The first object that needs to be created for the accordion component is the Accordion object. The Accordion object will handle parsing the XML as well as creating and controlling a variable number of panel objects. A...

Panel Functionality and Data Display The panel object uses the prototype structure to keep it reusable, which essentially allows us to create multiple panel objects. An accordion panel needs a unique ID for reference purposes and can include a tit...