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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

Adding the drop effect to elements


The drop effect is simple. Elements appear to drop off (or onto) the page, which is simulated by adjusting the element's position and opacity values.

This effect exposes the following configurable options:

Option

Default value

Use

direction

"left"

Sets the direction of the drop

distance

The outer width or height of the element (depending on the direction) divided by 2

Sets the distance the element drops

easing n

one

Sets the easing function used during the animation

mode

"hide"

Sets whether the element is hidden or shown

There are many situations in which the drop effect would be useful, but the one that instantly springs to mind is when creating custom tooltips. We can easily create a tooltip that appears when a button is clicked, but instead of just showing the tooltip, we can drop it onto the page. We'll use the button widget and the position utility in this example, as well as the effect.

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