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jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery

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jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery

Overview of this book

Modern web application user interface design requires rapid development and proven results. jQuery UI, a trusted suite of official plug-ins for the jQuery JavaScript library, gives you a solid platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces with maximum compatibility and stability, and minimum time and effort. 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. Specially revised for version 1.7 of jQuery UI, 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. 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 behavior to tailor it to the requirements of your application. You'll look at the configuration options and the methods exposed by each component's API to see how these can be used to bring out the best of the library. Events play a key role in any modern web application if it is to meet the expected minimum requirements of interactivity and responsiveness, and each chapter will show you the custom events fired by the component covered and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
jQuery UI 1.7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Configuring an accordion


The accordion has a range of configurable options that allow us to change the default behavior of the widget. The following table lists the available options, their default value, and gives a brief description of their usage:

Option

Default value

Usage

active

first child

Sets the active heading on page load.

animated

"slide"

Animate the opening of content panels.

autoHeight

true

Automatically set height according to the biggest drawer.

clearStyle

false

Clear height and overflow styles after a panel opens.

collapsible

false

Allows all of the content panels to be closed.

event

"click"

The event on headers that trigger drawers to open.

fillSpace

false

Allows the accordion to fill the height of its container instead of sizing itself according to the content within it.

header

"> li >:first-child,> :not(li):even"

The selector for header elements. Although it looks complex, this is a standard jQuery selector that simply targets the first...