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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

Configurable options of the datepicker


The datepicker has a large range of configurable options (currently 50 to be exact). The following table lists the basic options, their default values, and gives a brief description of their usage:

Option

Default value

Usage

altField

""

Specifies a CSS selector for an alternative <input> field to which the selected date is also added.

altFormat

""

Specifies an alternative format for the date added to the alternative <input>. See the dateFormat option in the later section for clarification on the value this option takes.

appendText

""

Adds text after datepicker <input> to show the format of the selected date.

autoSize

false

Automatically sets the width of the <input> element so that it can accommodate a date according to the specified dateFormat.

beforeShow

null

Allows the datepicker configuration object to update the datepicker just before it is called.

beforeShowDay

null

Takes...