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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

Configuring the draggable options


The draggable component has a wide range of configurable options, giving us a very fine degree of control over the behavior that it adds. The following table lists the options that we can manipulate to configure and control our drag elements:

Option

Default value

Used to…

addClasses

true

Add the ui-draggable class to the drag object. Set it to false to prevent this class being added.

appendTo

"parent"

Specify a container element for drag objects with a helper attached.

axis

false

Constrain drag objects to one axis of motion. Accepts the strings x and y as values, or the Boolean false.

cancel

":input, option"

Prevent certain elements from being dragged, if they match the specified element selector.

connectToSortable

false

Allow the drag object to be dropped on to a sortable list and become one of the sort elements.

containment

false

Prevent drag objects from being dragged out of the bounds of its parent element...