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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

Understanding the blind effect


The blind effect is practically the same as the slide effect. Visually, the element appears to do the same thing, and the two effects' code files are also extremely similar. The main difference between the two effects that we need to worry about is that with this effect we can only specify the axis of the effect, not the actual direction.

The blind effect has the following configuration options:

Option

Default value

Use

direction

"vertical"

Sets the axis of motion

easing

none

Sets the easing function used during the animation

mode

"hide"

Sets whether the element is hidden or shown

The direction option that this effect uses for configuration only accepts the values horizontal or vertical. We'll build on the last example to see the blind effect in action. Change the <script> resource for the blind effect in effectSlide.html, so that it refers to the jquery.ui.effect-blind.js file:

<script src="development-bundle/ui/jquery.ui.effect...