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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

Configuring the dialog's dimensions


There are several options related to the dialog's size, and the minimum and maximum size that it can be resized to. We can add all of these options to the next example as they're all related, to save looking at them individually. Change the configuration object in dialog8.html to the following:

$("#myDialog").dialog({
  width: 500,
  height: 300,
  minWidth: 150,
  minHeight: 150,
  maxWidth: 600,
  maxHeight: 450
});

Save this file as dialog9.html. The effect these options have on the widget is simple; the width and height options define how big the dialog is when it is first opened, while the min- and max- options define how small or large the dialog can be resized to respectively.

Tip

As an additional note, assistive technologies and keyboard users may find the content difficult to navigate if the dialog is made too small. There is a usability tenet that insists dialog boxes should always be non-resizable, whereas the windows should always be resizable...