CHAPTER 6 JavaScript for the PeopleSoft Developer

In this chapter, you will learn how to improve the user experience by adding JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and HTML to custom and delivered PeopleSoft pages. Using JavaScipt, we can change a page’s appearance, animate page elements, and load external data. This chapter starts with a basic test page and then progresses to more advanced JavaScript techniques. (I assume that you have some knowledge of JavaScript; if not, you can refer to any of the many resources devoted to the subject.)

A Static JavaScript Example

To demonstrate JavaScript features in PeopleSoft, let’s start with a blank page. Create a new page by choosing File | New from the App Designer menu bar and selecting Page ...

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