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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


We first looked at what the accordion does and how it is targeted by the CSS framework. We then moved on to look at the configurable options that can be used to change the behavior of the accordion, such as specifying an alternative heading to be open by default, or setting the event that triggers the opening of a content drawer.

Along with configurable options, we saw that the accordion exposes several custom events. Using them, we can specify callback functions during configuration, or bind to them after configuration to execute additional functionality, in reaction to different things happening to the widget.

Next, we looked at the accordion's default animation and how we can animate the opening of content panels, using easing effects. We saw that to make use of non-standard animations or easing effects, the jquery.ui.effect.js file needs to be included along with the requisite custom effect file.

In addition to looking at these options, we also saw that there are a range of methods...