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jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery - Fourth Edition

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jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

jQuery UI, the official UI widget library for jQuery, gives you a solid platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces quickly, with maximum compatibility, stability, and effort. jQuery UI's ready-made widgets help to reduce the amount of code that you need to write to take a project from conception to completion. jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery has been specially revised for Version 1.10 of jQuery UI. It is written to maximize your experience with the library by breaking down each component and walking you through examples that progressively build up your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced user in a series of easy-to-follow steps. Throughout the book, you'll learn how to create a basic implementation of each component, then customize and configure the components to tailor them to your application. Each chapter will also show you the custom events fired by the components covered and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon to bring out the best of the library. We will then go on to cover the use of visually engaging, highly configurable user interface widgets. At the end of this book, we'll look at the functioning of all of the UI effects available in the jQuery UI library.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with HTML in tooltips


So far, we've covered how you can set up tooltips to appear on your pages, as well as style them. The latter presents us with a slight dilemma, though, as we have to rely on jQuery to add in CSS styles programmatically, which can be detrimental if we're aiming to maintain a progressive style of enhancement for our tooltips. There is a way around this; whilst it involves an element of jQuery, it does allow us to use HTML to generate our tooltips, making it far more flexible for our needs.

Tip

Use of HTML in your tooltips

Before we go any further, I should point out that use of this method introduces a security risk to your code; it is for this reason that the default usage of content was switched from allowing HTML to just plain text. Please use this at your own risk!

Remove the contents of the markup in tooltip9.html, and add in the following:

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla blandit mi quis imperdiet semper. Fusce vulputate...