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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

by Jay L Johnston
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
276 pages
5h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Extending images—add captions based on ALT attributes

Often we have to work with images, changing how we display metadata related to the images.

Getting ready

Get ready to extend images on our pages by beginning with a base class to mutate downstream classes.

var imgmootater = new Class({
initialize: function() {
this.imgs = $$('img');
},
make_titles: function() {
this.imgs.each(function(el){
el.set('title',el.get('alt'));
});
}
});

To prevent this from being just a boring interface with no real station in life, add a common function, which is to duplicate the IMG tag required ALT attribute into the TITLE attribute so that mouseover actions will display the otherwise hidden metadata.

How to do it...

Extend this class while maintaining inheritance ...

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