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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 themes


At various points throughout the book, we covered the use of themes within jQuery UI—a useful tool you can incorporate into your pages, is the Super Theme Switcher (STS) plugin, available from https://github.com/harborhoffer/Super-Theme-Switcher. Once implemented, you can use it to switch between themes at will; it's a great way to see how your site's widgets will look when a theme is changed, before making that change permanent.

This is particularly useful if you need to edit an existing theme; it is better practice to place your edits into an override file, and call this separately; editing the core UI CSS files means that you may face issues when upgrading to the next version of jQuery UI, as customizations could be lost.