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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

Handling selectable events


In addition to the standard configurable options of the selectable API, there are also a series of event callback options that can be used to specify functions that are executed at specific points during a select interaction. These options are listed in the following table:

Option

Triggered when

selecte

The select interaction ends and each element added to the selection triggers the callback.

selecting

Each selected element triggers the callback during the select interaction.

start

A select interaction begins.

stop

A selection operation ends.

unselected

Any elements that are part of the selectable, but are not selected during the interaction will fire this callback.

unselecting

Unselected elements will fire this during the select interaction.

Selecting really only becomes useful when something happens to the elements once they have been selected, which is where this event model comes into play. Let's put some of these callbacks to work...