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description MooTools Overview

MooTools is an open-source JavaScript library providing utilities and extended functionality for DOM manipulation, event handling, and AJAX interactions, primarily aimed at simplifying web development tasks.

help MooTools FAQ

What is MooTools Core 1.6.0 used for?

MooTools Core is a modular JavaScript library for DOM selection, event handling, classes, and browser-side requests such as Ajax. The official site documents MooTools Core 1.6.0 alongside MooTools More 1.6.0. [MooTools official site](https://mootools.net/)

Is MooTools the same kind of library as jQuery?

MooTools is a separate open-source JavaScript library created by Valerio Proietti, with a strong focus on extending JavaScript objects and providing a Class system. Code written for MooTools is not automatically compatible with jQuery's selector and plugin APIs. [MooTools background](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MooTools)

How does MooTools Class inheritance work?

MooTools defines classes with new Class and uses Extends to inherit from a parent class. Its official example creates Animal and Cat classes, then calls this.parent(age) from Cat's initializer. [MooTools Core documentation](https://mootools.net/)

Can MooTools code still run in a browser?

Yes, provided the page loads a compatible MooTools build and its required dependencies, because MooTools is client-side JavaScript. The main compatibility issue is usually older application code written against APIs from MooTools 1.2 or 1.6. [MooTools 1.6.0 documentation](https://mootools.net/core/docs/1.6.0)

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