XUL

Documentation

XUL Tutorial

A guided tutorial that will help you get started with XUL, originally from XULPlanet.

XUL Reference

XUL elements, attributes, properties, methods, and event handlers.

XUL Controls

A quick list of all of the available XUL controls.

The Joy of XUL

Describes the key features and components of XUL.

Menus and Popups Guide

A guide on using menus and popup panels.

Template Guide

A detailed guide on XUL templates, which is a means of generating content from a datasource.

Drag and Drop

How to perform drag and drop operations.

Overlays

Overlays are used to describe extra content for the UI. They provide a powerful mechanism for extending and customizing existing XUL applications.

XUL Periodic Table

This collection of XUL demos used to be available as a web page, but can no longer be viewed in Firefox since support for Remote XUL was disabled.  There is a XULRunner application containing the XUL Periodic Table which can be opened with Gecko based browsers. You can get it here. See: XULRunner_tips#Using_Firefox_3_to_run_XULRunner_applications for instructions on running XULRunner apps in Firefox.

Changes to XUL

New XUL features and changes to existing features are included in the Firefox developer release notes.

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Community

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  Mailing list
  • Google Group
  • RSS feed
• #xul on irc.mozilla.org

Tools

• XUL Explorer (a lightweight XUL IDE)
• XULExplorer (Patched version of XUL explorer)
• Extension developer's extension (featuring a Live XUL Editor)
• XULRef sidebar
• Firebug
• DOM Inspector
• Spket IDE, IDE for XUL/XBL
• Ample SDK, (Cross-browser XUL renderer in JavaScript/HTML)

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Related Topics

• JavaScript, XBL, CSS, RDF, Extensions, XULRunner