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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>

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jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery
Dan Wellman
Aug, 2011 | 424 pages
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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
jQuery UI 1.8 The User Interface Library for jQuery
jQuery UI 1.8 The User Interface Library for jQuery
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introducing jQuery UI
Introducing jQuery UI
Downloading the library
Setting up a development environment
The structure of the library
ThemeRoller
Component categories
Browser support
Book examples
Library licensing
API introduction
Summary
2
The CSS Framework and Other Utilities
The CSS Framework and Other Utilities
The files that make up the framework
Linking to the required framework files
Using the framework classes
Containers
Interactions
Icons
Interaction cues
Switching themes quickly and easily
Overriding the theme
The position utility
Collision avoidance
Positioning with a function
The widget factory
Creating the widget
The _create function
The common API methods
Adding custom methods
The widget style sheet
Using the widget
Summary
3
Using the Tabs Widget
Using the Tabs Widget
A basic tab implementation
Tab CSS framework classes
Applying a custom theme to the tabs
Configurable options
Tab events
Using tab methods
AJAX tabs
Changing the URL of a remote tab's content
Reloading a remote tab
Displaying data obtained via JSONP
Summary
4
The Accordion Widget
The Accordion Widget
Accordion's structure
Styling the accordion
Configuring an accordion
Accordion events
Accordion navigation
Accordion methods
Accordion interoperability
Summary
5
The Dialog
The Dialog
Creating a basic dialog
Dialog options
Dialog's event model
Controlling a dialog programmatically
Getting data from the dialog
Dialog interoperability
Creating a dynamic image-based dialog
Summary
6
The Slider Widget
The Slider Widget
Implementing a slider
Custom styling
Configurable options
Using slider's event API
Slider methods
Practical uses
A color slider
Summary
7
The Datepicker Widget
The Datepicker Widget
The default datepicker
Configurable options of the datepicker
Utility methods
Date picking methods
An AJAX datepicker
Summary
8
The Progressbar Widget
The Progressbar Widget
The default progressbar implementation
Progressbar's configuration options
Progressbar's event API
Progressbar methods
User initiated progress
Rich uploads with progressbar
Summary
9
The Button and Autocomplete Widgets
The Button and Autocomplete Widgets
The button widget
The autocomplete widget
Summary
10
Drag and Drop
Drag and Drop
The deal with drag and droppables
Draggables
Configuring draggable options
Draggable event callbacks
Draggable's methods
Droppables
Configuring droppables
Droppable event callbacks
Droppable methods
A drag and drop game
Summary
11
The Resizable Component
The Resizable Component
A basic resizable
Resizable options
Resizable callbacks
Resizable methods
Resizable tabs
Summary
12
The Selectables Component
The Selectables Component
Basic implementation
Selectee classnames
Configurable options of the selectable component
Selectable callbacks
Selectable methods
A selectable image viewer
Summary
13
The Sortables Component
The Sortables Component
The default implementation
Configuring sortable options
Reacting to sortable events
Connected callbacks
Sortable methods
Widget compatibility
Summary
14
UI Effects
UI Effects
The core effects file
Highlighting specified elements
Bouncing
Shaking an element
Element scaling
Element explosion
The puff effect
The pulsate effect
Dropping elements onto the page
Sliding elements open or closed
The window-blind effect
Clipping elements
Folding elements
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Vijay Joshi is a programmer with over six years of experience on various platforms. He discovered his passion for open source four years back when he started playing with PHP on a hobby project after completing his Masters in Computer Applications.

Vijay is now a freelance web developer, independent consultant for a few selected companies, and a blogger at http://vijayjoshi.org. He specializes in developing custom web applications, mashups, creating apps using PHP frameworks, and enhancing existing web apps using PHP and front-end libraries like jQuery, jQUI, and so on.

Vijay is also the author of PHP jQuery Cookbook and a technical reviewer of PHP AJAX Cookbook both of which have been published by Packt.

Outside of work, he enjoys reading, trekking, and sometimes gets obsessed with fitness.

Jake Kronika is a web designer and developer with over fifteen years of experience, and brings to this book a strong background in front-end development with JavaScript and jQuery, as well as significant training in server-side languages and frameworks.

Having earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2005, with a minor in Business Administration, he went on to become Senior User Interface (UI) Specialist for Imaginary Landscape, LLC, a small web development firm in the Ravenswood neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. In this role, the foundations of his strengths in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) were honed and finely tuned.

From there, Jake went on to work for the Sun-Times News Group, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and numerous suburban newspapers in Chicagoland. It was in this role that he was initially exposed and rapidly gained expert skills with the jQuery framework for JS.

Following intermediate positions as Technology Consultant with Objective Arts, Inc, and as UI Prototyper for JP Morgan Chase, Jake moved across the contiguous United States to Seattle, WA, where he assumed his current role of Senior UI Software Engineer with the Cobalt Group, a marketing division of ADP's Dealer Services. Since 1999, he has also operated Gridline Design & Development (so named in 2009), a sole proprietorship for web design, development, and administration.

Jake has also reviewed Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery, a Packt Publishing text authored by Jonathan Howard and published in January of 2011.

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