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jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery

By : Dan Wellman
Book Image

jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery

By: Dan Wellman

Overview of this book

<p>Modern web application user interface design requires rapid development and proven results. jQuery UI, a trusted plugin for the jQuery JavaScript library, gives you a trusted platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces with maximum compatibility, stability, and a minimum of time and effort.</p> <p>jQuery UI has a series of ready-made, great-looking user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interaction helpers designed to be implemented in a consistent and developer-friendly way. With all this, the amount of code that you need to write personally to take a project from conception to completion is drastically reduced.</p> <p>This book has been written to maximize your experience with the library by breaking down each component and walking you through examples that progressively build upon your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced usage in a series of easy to follow steps.</p> <p>In this book, you'll learn how each component can be initialized in a basic default implementation and then see how easy it is to customize its appearance and configure its behaviour to tailor it to the requirements of your application. You'll look at the properties and methods exposed by each component's API and see how these can be used to bring out the best in each component.</p> <p>Events play a key role in any modern web applications if it is to meet the expected minimum requirements of interactivity and responsiveness, and each chapter will show you the custom events fired by each component and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
jQuery UI 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Fun with selectables


In our final selectable example, we're going to make a basic image viewer. Images can be chosen for viewing by selecting the appropriate thumbnail.

Although this sounds like a relatively easy achievement, in addition to the actual mechanics of displaying the selected image, we'll also need to consider how to handle multiple selections. The following screenshot shows an example of what we'll end up with:

The images used in this example are provided in the code download because they need to be the correct size for this example to look right. There should be eight of both the large and thumbnail versions of each image, and the sizes of each are 100 by 100 pixels for the thumbnails and 400 by 400 pixels for the large versions.

We need to create two new folders called large and thumbs within our img directory. Then you should place the thumbnail images from the code download, or an equivalent number of equivalently sized images, in the thumbs folder and the full-sized images...