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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

Introducing the Selectee class names


The elements that are made selectable are all initially given the ui-selectee class, and the parent element that contains them is given the ui-selectable class. While elements are selected, they are given the ui-selected class.

While the selecting square is around selectable elements, they are given the ui-selecting class, and whilst an element is being deselected it is given the ui-unselecting class. These classnames are added purely for our benefit, so that we can highlight different states that the selectable may be in.

This extensive class system makes it very easy to add custom styling to show when elements are either in the process of being selected or have been selected. Let's add some additional styling now to reflect the selecting and selected states. Add the following new selectors and rules to selectable.css:

#selectables div.ui-selecting { border: 1px solid #fe2f2f; }
#selectables div.ui-selected { background: #fe2f2f; color: #fff; }

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