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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

Folding elements


Folding is a neat effect that gives the appearance that the element it's applied to is being folded up like a piece of paper. It achieves this by moving the bottom edge of the specified element up to 15 pixels from the top, then moving the right edge completely over towards the left edge.

The distance from the top that the element is shrunk to in the first part of this effect is exposed as a configurable property by the effect's API. So, this is something that we can adjust to suit the needs of our implementation. This property is an integer.

We can see this effect in action by modifying the dialog example once again. In effectClip.html, change the effect source file for clip to fold:

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

Then change the hide event callback to the following:

hide: {
  effect: "fold",
  size: 200,
  duration: 1000
}

Save this as effectFold.html. This time we make use of the size configuration option to make the effect...