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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

Scaling elements on a page


The scale effect is highly configurable and is used to shrink an element. It is very effective when used to hide elements. In this example we'll use the hide() method to trigger the effect, instead of using the effect method.

We'll use a few of the CSS framework classes in this example, as well as a few custom styles; so add two new <link> elements to the <head> element of effectTransfer.html:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="development-bundle/themes/redmond/jquery.ui.all.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/effectScale.css">

Then, replace the underlying markup in the <body> element with the following:

<div class="ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all">
  <div class="ui-widget-header ui-corner-all">
    A dialog box
    <a id="close" class="ui-icon ui-icon-closethick" href="#">
    Close
    </a>
  </div>
  <div class="content">Close the dialog to see the scale effect</div>
</div>

Don't...