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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 seen how the CSS framework consistently styles each of the library components. We've looked at the files that make it and how they work together to provide the complete look-and-feel of the widgets. We also saw how tightly integrated the ThemeRoller application is with the framework, and that it is easy to install or change a theme using ThemeRoller. We also looked at how we can override the theme file if we require a radical customization of a widget that we cannot obtain with ThemeRoller alone.

The chapter also covered building our own widgets or plugins in a way that is compatible with and can make use of the framework, as well as to ensure that our creations are ThemeRoller ready. We can also make use of the helper classes provided by the framework, such as the ui-helper-clearfix class, to quickly implement common CSS solutions.

We also looked at the position utility, which allows us to align any edge of one element with any edge of another element, giving...