The jQuery website has a whole load of plugins available at http://plugins.jquery.com/, and some of the cream of the crop are selected to become part of the UI project, available at http://jqueryui.com/. This project covers all the common needs of web developers, using a neatly integrated suite of widgets.
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jQuery UI is a separate project from the main jQuery library. The aim of jQuery UI is to provide a set of the most commonly needed widgets, with good-looking CSS themes to support them.
We will use jQuery UI extensively in this book because when starting out with jQuery, what you want to do might have already been done superbly by the jQuery UI team.
jQuery UI is hosted at http://jqueryui.com/, and has some of the same developers as the main jQuery library.
Tabs are available for most of the visual programming languages, and the method used to generate them is very common.
In the screenshot here, you can see that a tab widget is composed of two main sections,...