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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

Getting started with the draggable widget


The draggables component is used to make any specified element or collection of elements draggable, so that they can be picked up and moved around the page by a visitor. Draggability is a great effect, and is a feature that can be used in numerous ways to improve the interface of our web pages.

Using jQuery UI means that we don't have to worry about all of the tricky differences between browsers that originally made draggable elements on web pages a nightmare to implement and maintain.

Implementing a basic drag

Let's look at the default implementation by first making a simple <div> element draggable. We won't do any additional configuration. Therefore, all that this code will allow you to do is pick up the element with the mouse pointer and drag it around the viewport.

In a new file in your text editor, add the following code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Draggable</title...