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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 looked at the datepicker widget that is supported by one of the biggest APIs in the jQuery UI library. This gives us a huge number of options to work with and methods to receive data from. We first looked at the default implementation and how much behavior is added to the widget automatically.

We looked at the rich API exposed by the datepicker, which includes more configurable options than any other component. We also saw how we can use the utility functions that are unique to the datepicker manager object.

We saw how easy the widget makes implementing internationalization. We also saw that there are 34 additional languages the widget has been translated into. Each of these is packed into a module that is easy to use in conjunction with the datepicker for adding support for alternative languages. We also saw how we create our own custom language configuration.

We covered some of the events that are fired during a datepicker interaction, and looked at the range of...