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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

Implementing the sliding effect


The remaining effects of the jQuery UI library all work by showing and hiding elements in different ways, rather than using opacity like most of the effects we have already looked at.

The slide effect is no exception and shows (or hides) an element by sliding it into (or out of) view. It is similar to the drop effect that we just looked at. The main difference is that it does not use opacity.

The slide effect contains the following configuration options:

Option

Default value

Use

direction

"left"

Sets the direction of the slide

distance

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

Sets the distance the element slides

easing

none

Sets the easing function used during the animation

mode

"show"

Sets whether the element is hidden or shown

These are the same configuration options used by the drop effect that we looked at in the previous example, except that some of the default values are different.

For our next example...