06 Tutorials

Tutorials

In this section, you'll find tutorials related to accomplishing common tasks you're likely to do with a MuCow. These will hopefully give you an idea of how to accomplish what you need, and, as always, feel free to ask any questions in the forums.

Using jQuery

jQuery is a very common thing for people to want to use, and we will automatically load in jQuery when a Muse page loads. You should not load your own version of jQuery. This will increase load times, and cause issues with Muse exported code. Instead, if you include your JavaScript in the <bodyEndHTML> you will be able to use the version of jQuery we load.

Combining this with things like the built-in ID parameter allows you to directly manipulate the page item you'd like using standard jQuery functionality. For example, if I wanted to increment a counter every time the user clicked on the page item, it might look something like this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<HTMLWidget name="Example" formatNumber="1" localization="none" creator="Adobe Muse Team">
	<parameters>
		<builtIn name="itemUID"/>
	</parameters>
	<pageItemHTML>
<![CDATA[
		You've clicked on this item <span class="count">0</span> times.
]]>
	</pageItemHTML>
	<bodyEndHTML>
<![CDATA[
		<script type="text/javascript">
			$("#{param_itemUID}").data('clickCount', 0).on('click', function () {
					$(this).data('clickCount', $(this).data('clickCount') + 1);
					$(this).find('.count').text($(this).data('clickCount'));
				});
		</script>
]]>
	</bodyEndHTML>
</HTMLWidget>