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jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery

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

jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery

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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.
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jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Index

Chapter 9. Creating Menus

The menu widget, previously a part of the autocomplete widget, became a standalone plugin in its own right from Version 1.9 of the library, which allows for its re-use in other components. It can be used on its own to transform a list of hyperlinks into a themeable menu that can be controlled using the keyboard or mouse, although it really comes into its own when used with other components such as buttons.

Each menu has a number of menu items associated with it, which when selected will direct the visitor to any part of your site. When you click on the top level, a number of submenu items will slide into view; these may have extra decoration in the form of icons, or be disabled if access is to be prevented at the time of accessing the menu option.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • How to turn a list into a menu, with or without submenus

  • The options available for configuring a menu

  • Adding style to menus

  • Manipulating menu items with icons and dividers...

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