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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

Summary


Phew! For such a small widget, we certainly have covered a lot of ground!

The Tooltip widget is an excellent way to communicate short pieces of information, such as an error or alert, to the user, you can even use it as a mini help system; let's review what was covered in this chapter.

We first looked at how, with just a little underlying HTML and a single line of jQuery-flavored JavaScript, we can implement the default tooltip widget. We then saw how easy it is to style the Tooltip widget, either using a predesigned ThemeRoller theme, or one of our own; so that its appearance, but not its behavior, is altered.

We then moved on, to look at the set of configurable options exposed by the tooltip's API, and how these can be used to control the options that the widget offers. Following the configurable options, we covered the handful of methods that we can use to programmatically make the tooltip perform different actions, such as enabling or disabling specific tooltips.

We briefly looked...