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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

Summary


In this chapter, we've covered the complete range of UI effects available in the jQuery UI library. We've seen how easy it is to use the jquery.ui.effect.js base component to construct attractive color animations and smooth class transitions.

We also saw that the following effects can be used in conjunction with the simple effect API:

  • Bounce

  • Highlight

  • Shake

  • Transfer

An important point is that most of the individual effects can be used not only with the effect API but can also make use of show/hide and toggle logic, making them incredibly flexible and robust. The following effects can be used with this advanced API:

  • Blind

  • Clip

  • Drop

  • Explode

  • Fold

  • Puff

  • Pulsate

  • Scale

  • Slide

We also saw that the jQuery UI effects' core files also include all of the easing functions used in the jquery.easing.js plugin that must be used with jQuery when we are not using jQuery UI.

This now brings us to the end of this chapter. There is a saying that I'm sure almost all of you will have heard before. It's the "Give a man a...