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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

Listing the sortable methods


The sortables component exposes the usual set of methods for making the component perform actions. Like the selectables component that we looked at before, it also defines a couple of unique methods not seen in any of the other components. The following table lists sortables' unique methods:

Method

Used to…

cancel

Cancel the sort and cause elements to return to their original positions.

refresh

Reload the set of sortables.

refreshPositions

Trigger a cache refresh of the set of sortables.

serialize

Construct a query string that can be used to send a new sort order to the server, for further processing or storage.

toArray

Serialize the sortables into an array of strings.

Serializing

The serialize and toArray methods are great for storing the new order of the sortables. Let's see this in action. We will create a series of sortable elements, and then set Sortable to display their order. This will be updated on screen each time you move one of...