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jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery - Fourth Edition

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jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

jQuery UI, the official UI widget library for jQuery, gives you a solid platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces quickly, with maximum compatibility, stability, and effort. jQuery UI's ready-made widgets help to reduce the amount of code that you need to write to take a project from conception to completion. jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery has been specially revised for Version 1.10 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 up your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced user in a series of easy-to-follow steps. Throughout the book, you'll learn how to create a basic implementation of each component, then customize and configure the components to tailor them to your application. Each chapter will also show you the custom events fired by the components covered and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon to bring out the best of the library. We will then go on to cover the use of visually engaging, highly configurable user interface widgets. At the end of this book, we'll look at the functioning of all of the UI effects available in the jQuery UI library.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Positioning tooltips accurately


One of the most useful features of jQuery UI's tooltips is the ability to fine-tune where they appear on screen. There may be instances where you need them to appear, but not at the expense of hiding an important feature on your website or application! Let's have a look at how the position attribute works, using a custom styled tooltip with pointer as an example.

In your text editor, alter the final <script> block of tooltip4.html, as shown in the following code:

<script>
  $(document).ready(function($){
    $('a').tooltip({
      position: { 
        my: 'center+30 bottom', 
        at: 'center top-8',
        of: '#tip'
      }
    });                  
    $('a').tooltip('option', 'tooltipClass', 'top');
  });  
</script>        

We need to alter the markup so it includes the selector ID we've just referenced in the tooltip call:

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla blandit mi quis imperdiet semper. Fusce...