midori Javascript Framework

midori

Developer(s)	Aycan Gulez
Stable release	2010.05 / May 10, 2010; 18 months ago (2010-05-10)
Written in	JavaScript
Type	Web application framework
License	MIT License
Website	http://www.midorijs.com

midori is a lightweight^[1] JavaScript library that aims to make JavaScript web development easier. It was created by Aycan Gulez.

Features

• DOM element selection using CSS selectors
• Tabs
• Drag and Drop
• Effects
• Pop-up menus
• Ajax with history support
• Autocomplete
• Inline Edit
• Table row selection
• DOM, cookie, form, string and array utility methods

Use

midori consists of 10 modules and is available as a single JavaScript file. It can be included within any web page by using the following markup:

<script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/midori.js"></script>

midori allows the use of standard CSS syntax to access DOM elements, and supports most CSS2 and CSS3 selectors^[2]. There are three ways to work on returned DOM elements.

• Passing JavaScript code to modify a single property, using the built-in apply() method:

// Sets the background color of all the cells in even rows to "yellow" in the "cities" table
midori.get('#cities tr:nth-child(even) td').apply('style.backgroundColor = "yellow"');

• Passing a function that takes a single parameter for more complex operations, again using the apply() method:

// Marks the cells whose values are 12 or bigger in the "cities" table
midori.get('#cities td').apply(function (o) {
   if (parseInt(o.innerHTML) >= 12) o.style.backgroundColor = 'red';
} );

• Directly accessing array entries returned by midori.get() is also possible.

// Returns the first div element
var firstDiv = midori.get('div')[0];

References

1. ^ 10 Promising JavaScript Frameworks
2. ^ List of CSS selectors midori supports

External links

• Official website
• Documentation
• Tutorials