Dojo: The Definitive Guide

Summary

After reading this chapter, you should:

• Be able to explain how dijits encapsulate the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into a standalone, portable unit of code

• Understand the key lifecycle events that _Widget provides with stub methods, including the order they execute and the stubs they provide

• Understand how _Templated acts as a mixin ancestor for _Widget and provides supplemental functionality for adding template support to dijits

• Understand the differences and trade-offs between using templatePath and templateString in templated dijits

• Be able to successfully manipulate a dijit's template before it is displayed on screen

• Be able to pass in parameters to dijits through their templates

• Be able to programmatically create a widget and place it into the page

• Know how to add support for DOM events such as onmouseover in your dijits

• Be able to use Declaration to rapidly prototype in markup

A discussion of form widgets is next.