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Search Prototype Prototype.Browser Prototype.BrowserFeatures Prototype.Selector Ajax section Ajax Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater Ajax.Request Ajax.Responders Ajax.Response Ajax.Updater DOM section $ $$ $F Abstract Abstract.EventObserver Abstract.TimedObserver document document.viewport Element Element.Layout Element.Methods Element.Offset Event Event.Handler Form Form.Element Form.Element.EventObserver Form.Element.Observer Form.EventObserver Form.Observer Selector Language section $A $H $R $w Array Class Date Enumerable Function Hash Number Object ObjectRange PeriodicalExecuter RegExp String Template Try Prototype An object-oriented JavaScript framework Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. It offers a familiar class-style OO framework, extensive Ajax support, higher-order programming constructs, and easy DOM manipulation. Targeted platforms Prototype currently targets the following platforms: Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, version 6.0 and higher Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and higher Apple Safari 2.0.4 and higher Opera 9.25 and higher Chrome 1.0 and higher Using Prototype To use Prototype in your application, download the latest release from the Prototype web site ( http://prototypejs.org/download ) and copy dist/prototype.js to a suitable location. Then include it in your HTML like so: script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/prototype.js"/script Building Prototype from source prototype.js is a composite file generated from many source files in the src/ directory. To build Prototype, you’ll need: a copy of the Prototype source tree, either from a distribution tarball or from the Git repository (see below) Ruby 1.8.2 or higher ( http://www.ruby-lang.org/ ) RakeRuby Make ( http://rake.rubyforge.org/ ) RDoc, if your Ruby distribution does not include it From the root Prototype directory: rake dist will preprocess the Prototype source using Sprockets and generate the composite dist/prototype.js rake package will create a distribution tarball in the pkg/ directory Contributing to Prototype Check out the Prototype source with $ git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/prototype.git $ cd prototype $ git submodule init $ git submodule update vendor/sprockets vendor/pdoc vendor/unittest_js Find out how to contribute: http://prototypejs.org/contribute . Documentation Please see the online Prototype API: http://api.prototypejs.org . Sections Ajax Prototype’s APIs around the XmlHttpRequest object. DOM Extensions to DOM elements, plus other utilities for DOM traversal and modification. Language Additions to JavaScript’s "standard library" and extensions to built-in JavaScript objects. Prototype JavaScript Framework v1.7.3 API documentation. Last updated on May 28, 2021 at 21:36 UTC. Generated by PDoc . Uses Silk Icons and portions of Aristo . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License...