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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 selectable component


The selectable class is quite compact, with relatively few configurable options compared to some of the other components that we've looked at.

The following options are available for configuration:

Option

Default value

Used to...

autoRefresh

True

Automatically refresh the size and position of each selectable at the start of a select interaction.

cancel

":input, option"

Prevent the specified elements from being selected with a click. The default string contains the :input jQuery filter, which matches all <input>, <textarea>, <select>, and <button> elements along with the standard option element selector.

delay

0

Set the delay in milliseconds before the element is selected. The mouse button must be held down on the element before the selection will begin.

disabled

false

Disable selection when the page initially loads.

distance

0

Set the distance the mouse pointer must travel, with the mouse...