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jQuery UI Cookbook

By : Adam Boduch
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jQuery UI Cookbook

By: Adam Boduch

Overview of this book

jQuery UI is the quintessential framework for creating professional user interfaces. While jQuery core lays the foundation for interaction with the DOM and handling events, jQuery UI fills in the user interaction gap. This book will give you a huge productivity boost out of the box with jQuery UI, and help you understand the framework, inside and out."jQuery UI Cookbook" provides you with practical recipes featuring in-depth coverage of every widget in the framework, including how to address limitations that impact your everyday development activities with these widgets. You'll get a better idea of the big picture – how the framework is composed, how the widgets relate to one another, and how to build on those patterns.Be it a minor tweak on the visual design of a progress bar or a fundamental change in a widget to meet your needs, "jQuery UI Cookbook" covers scenarios both big and small. You can show reminders as tooltips, apply a variety of effects to the menu widget, and start interactions between the dialog widget and API data using deferred objects. These and many more interesting tasks are covered in this book, which can be done with smooth learning and great understanding. You will see how button widgets can fill the width of their containing element, making the layout more consistent. Tabs can be sorted and moved between widgets. You will learn how to do all these things within the context of the big picture, by finding out why the components work the way they do, making you well-versed in jQuery UI.

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jQuery UI Cookbook
Adam Boduch
Jul, 2013 | 290 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
jQuery UI Cookbook
jQuery UI Cookbook
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
Creating Accordions
Creating Accordions
Introduction
Section navigation using the Tab key
Dynamically changing the height style
Resizable content sections
Controlling spacing with themes
Sorting accordion sections
Dragging-and-dropping between accordions
2
Including Autocompletes
Including Autocompletes
Introduction
Styling the default input with themes
Building data sources using select options
Using multiple data sources
Remote autocomplete filtering
Custom data and categories
Applying effects to the drop-down menu
3
Crafting Buttons
Crafting Buttons
Introduction
Making simple checklists
Controlling the spacing with buttonsets
Filling space with buttons automatically
Sorting buttons within a group
Using effects with the button hover state
Button icons and hiding text
4
Developing Datepickers
Developing Datepickers
Introduction
Working with different date formats
Making a full-sized calendar widget
Displaying month-to-month effects
Appointment reminders as tooltips
Restricting the date range
Hiding the input field
Additional calendar data and controls
5
Adding Dialogs
Adding Dialogs
Introduction
Applying effects to dialog components
Waiting for API data to load
Using icons in the dialog title
Adding actions to the dialog title
Applying effects to dialog resize interactions
Using modal dialogs for messages
6
Making Menus
Making Menus
Introduction
Creating sortable menu items
Highlighting the active menu item
Using effects with menu navigation
Building menus dynamically
Controlling the position of submenus
Applying themes to submenus
7
Progress Bars
Progress Bars
Introduction
Displaying file upload progress
Animating progress changes
Creating progressindicator widgets
Using states to warn about thresholds
Giving progressbars labels
8
Using Sliders
Using Sliders
Introduction
Controlling the size of the slider handle
Removing the handle focus outline
Using master sliders and child sliders
Marking step increments
Getting range values
Changing the slider orientation
9
Using Spinners
Using Spinners
Introduction
Removing the input focus outline
Formatting currencies for local cultures
Formatting time for local cultures
Controlling the step between values
Specifying the spin overflow
Simplifying the spinner buttons
10
Using Tabs
Using Tabs
Introduction
Working with remote tab content
Giving tabs an icon
Simplifying the tab theme
Using tabs as URL navigation links
Creating effects between tab transitions
Sorting tabs using the sortable interaction
Setting the active tab using href
11
Using Tooltips
Using Tooltips
Introduction
Changing the tooltip state
Using custom markup in tooltips
Displaying the mouse movement
Applying effects to the tooltip display
Tooltips for selected text
12
Widgets and More!
Widgets and More!
Introduction
Accordions to tabs, and back again
Building a custom widget from scratch
Building an observer widget
Using widgets with Backbone applications
Index
Index

Building a custom widget from scratch

The most powerful aspect of jQuery UI isn't the prebuilt widgets that ship with it, but rather, the machinery used to build those widgets. Each widget shares a common infrastructure called the widget factory, and this is exposed to developers using the framework. The widget factory provides a means for developers to define their own widgets. We've already glimpsed the widget factory in action throughout this book. We've been using it to extend the capabilities of any given widget. The focus of this section takes on a different perspective of the widget factory. That is, how can we use it to build our own widgets from the ground up?

Well, we don't want to start with nothing, as that would defeat the whole purpose of the widget factory. Instead, the aim when building any widget is to utilize the generic capabilities that the base widget class makes available. In addition, there are some basic design principles that developers should try to stick with when...

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