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If you are a developer using the Yahoo! User Interfaces then you are always looking for good resources for learning more about coding with the library. You've probably already gone through a lot of the information on the Yahoo! Developer pages and perhaps you would like a good book about the library. Well, I have come across a book called Learning the Yahoo! User Interface Library.

Below is what you will learn from the book

• Explore the YUI Library?utilities, controls, core files, and CSS tools
• Install the library and get up and running with it
• Handle DOM manipulation and scripting
• Get inside Event Handling with YUI
• Create consistent web pages using YUI CSS tools
• Work with Containers?implementation, skinning, adding transitions, and tabs
• Debug, maintain, and update applications with the Logger control
• Examples included in the book:

•     Calendar interface
•     Autocomplete
•     Creating panels
•     Dialogs
•     Custom tooltips
•     Forms
•     Split button
•     TreeView Control
•     Browser History Manager with Calendar
•     Simple animation
•     Custom animation
•     Creating tabs and adding content dynamically
•     Dragging and dropping
•     Implementing sliders
•     Logger at work
•     Logging custom classes

The book retails for $44.99 and below is the information that you would need to pick it up at your local book store.

Language: English
Paperback: 380 pages [191mm x 235mm]
Release date: March 2008
ISBN: 1847192327
ISBN: 13 978-1-847192-32-5
Author(s): Dan Wellman
Topics and Technologies: Open Source, AJAX

You can read more about the book and purchase it here.

It is good to see more resources for great libraries like the YUI. If you have a chance to read the book, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it (you can leave a comment or blog about it on this blog using your free Ajaxonomy account).

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