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jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery

By : Dan Wellman
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jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery

By: Dan Wellman

Overview of this book

<p>jQuery UI, the official suite of plugins for the jQuery JavaScript library, gives you a solid 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 user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interaction helpers to reduce the amount of code that you need to write to take a project from conception to completion.<br /><br />jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery has been specially revised for version 1.8 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 upon your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced usage in a series of easy-to-follow steps.<br /><br />Throughout the book, you'll learn how each component can be initialized in a basic default implementation and then customize and configure each component to tailor it to 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. Each chapter will also show you the custom events fired by the component covered and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon.</p>
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
jQuery UI 1.8 The User Interface Library for jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Droppable event callbacks


The options that we've looked at so far configure various operational features of the droppable. In addition to these, there are almost as many callback options, so that we can define functions that react to different things occurring to the droppable and its accepted drag objects. These options are listed in the following table:

Callback option

Invoked when…

activate

An accepted drag object begins dragging

deactivate

An accepted drag object stops being dragged

drop

An accepted drag object is dropped onto a droppable

out

An accepted drag object is moved out of the bounds (including the tolerance) of the droppable

over

An accepted drag object is moved within the bounds (including the tolerance) of the droppable

Let's put together a basic example that makes use of these callback options. We'll add a status bar to our droppable that reports the status of different interactions between the drag object and the droppable. In droppable4.html...