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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 dialog options


An option object can be used in a dialog's widget method to configure various dialog options. Let's look at the available options:

Option

Default value

Description

appendTo

"body"

Determines which element the dialog (and overlay, if modal) should be appended to.

autoOpen

true

Shows the dialog as soon as the dialog() method is called, when set to true.

buttons

{}

Supplies an object containing buttons to be used with the dialog. Each key becomes the text on the <button> element, and each value is a callback function, which is executed when the button is clicked.

closeOnEscape

true

If set to true, the dialog will close when the Esc key is pressed.

dialogClass

""

Sets additional classnames on the dialog for theming purposes.

draggable

true

Makes the dialog draggable (requires use of jquery.ui.draggable.js).

height

auto

Sets the starting height of the dialog.

hide

null

Sets an effect to be used when...