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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

Chapter 11. Drag and Drop

So far in this book, we've covered the complete range of fully released interface widgets, and over the next four chapters, we're going to shift our focus to the core interaction helpers. These are widgets that provide mouse-based interactions for widgets, where we can perform actions, such as selecting, dragging, or resizing widgets on a website. A perfect example is the resizable widget, which we will cover in Chapter 12, The Resizable Component. These interaction components of the library differ from those we've already looked at, in that they are not physical objects or widgets that exist on the page.

These are low-level interaction components, as opposed to the high-level widgets that we looked at in the first part of this book. They help the elements used on your pages to be more engaging and interactive for your visitors, which adds value to your site and can help make your web applications appear more professional. They also help to blur the distinctions...