The explosion effect is truly awesome. The targeted element is literally exploded into a specified number of pieces before disappearing completely. It's an easy effect to use and has few configuration properties, but the visual impact of this effect is huge, giving you a lot of effect in return for very little code. Let's see a basic example. Create the following new page:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/effectExplode.css"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> <title>jQuery UI Explode Effect</title> </head> <body> <p>Click the grenade to pull the pin!</p> <div id="theBomb"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="development-bundle/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript...