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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

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So far, we've covered a great deal of theory around using jQuery UI's Tooltip; in this example and the next, we will take a look at some practical uses of tooltips that you can use as a starting point for your own projects. Before continuing, make sure you have a copy of the code download available, as we will be using files from it for this exercise.

One possible use for tooltips is to mimic the like or dislike buttons you might find on social media sites, such as YouTube, where you can register your preference for videos you have enjoyed watching. Let's take a look at how you could replicate the functionality, in your own projects, but using tooltips and a number of other jQuery UI widgets that we've covered so far in this book.

Note

This demonstration uses a video from the open source project The Big Buck Bunny, created by the Blender Foundation, and available from http://www.bigbuckbunny.org.

From the code download, extract a copy of tooltipVideo.js; this will provide the...