Chapter Five: Adding Effects and Interactivity with Spry and JavaScript

JavaScript programming works with CSS styles to enable animation and interactivity in Web sites. Here are some examples: A visitor scrolls over an area of the page, and another area of the page changes to display new content; a visitor clicks on a menu, and a submenu opens up; or a panel expands and collapses on a mouse click.

You’ll learn to generate all three of those interactive elements in this chapter, and through the course of being introduced to various examples, you’ll learn the method and system for enabling interactivity in your Web site.

Dreamweaver CS5 incorporates a set of animation and interactivity tools that use the Ajax set of tools. Ajax applications generate ...

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