An open source JavaScript toolkit.
Where can you download Dojo?
- Go to http://download.dojotoolkit.org/current-stable/
- Download dojo-release-1.6.1.zip or latest and uncompress it.
- Rename the folder name if needed.
- Dojo Home Page
- Dojo Documentation
- Dojo download
- Dojo widgets
- Dojo mobile
- Dojo grids-charts
- Dojo features
- Dojo is the Core and Base package
- Dijit is the library of the widgets
- Dojox is the package of Dojo Extensions
How to use Dojo?
- Load Dojo in the page
- Load the necessary Dojo styles
- Use dojo.require statements to include the necessary dojo modules
- Parse the page to Dojo-enable it (there are couple of ways to do this)
Example (Parsing the page in addOnLoad method):
How to connect the code to dijits?
Code can be connected to the dijits either 1)by using dojo's connect method or 2) by using the <script> elements.
Example (Connecting code to a dijit using dojo's connect method)
<head> </head> <body> </body>Example (Connecting code to a dijit using <script> elements)
<head> </head> <body> </body>How to set/get the value of dijit text box?
Advanced DOJO topics:
Following web sites explained VERY WELL the concepts of Writing Modular JavaScript with Dojo and Introduction to Custom Dojo Widgets.
