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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

Changing the default active header


By default, the first header of the accordion will be selected when the widget is rendered with its content panel open. We can change which header is selected on page load using the active option. Change the configuration <script> block in accordion3.html so that it appears as follows:

  <script>
    $(document).ready(function($) {
      $("#myAccordion").accordion({
        active: 2
      });
    });
  </script>

Save this version as accordion4.html. We set the active option to the integer 2 to open the third content panel by default, and similar to the tab headers that we saw in the previous chapter, accordion's headers use a zero-based index. Along with an integer, this option also accepts a jQuery selector or raw DOM element.

We can also use the Boolean value of false to configure the accordion so that none of the content panels are open by default. Change the configuration object once again to the following:

  <script>
    $(document...