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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

Styling the Tabs widget


Using Firebug for Firefox (or another generic DOM explorer), we can see that a variety of class names are added to the different underlying HTML elements. Let's review these class names briefly and see how they contribute to the overall appearance of the widget. To the outer container <div>, the following class names are added:

Class name

Purpose

ui-tabs

Allows tab-specific structural CSS to be applied.

ui-widget

Sets generic font styles that are inherited by nested elements.

ui-widget-content

Provides theme-specific styles.

ui-corner-all

Applies rounded corners to the container.

The first element within the container is the <ul> element. This element receives the following class names:

Class name

Purpose

ui-tabs-nav

Allows tab-specific structural CSS to be applied.

ui-helper-reset

Neutralizes browser-specific styles applied to <ul> elements.

ui-helper-clearfi

Applies the clear-fix, as this element has children that...