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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 autocomplete options


The following options can be set in order to modify the behavior of the widget:

Option

Default Value

Usage

appendTo

"body"

Specifies which element to append the widget to.

autofocus

false

Focuses the first suggestion in the list when displaying the list of suggestions.

delay

300

Specifies the number of milliseconds the widget should wait before displaying the list of suggestions, after the visitor has started typing in the <input>.

disabled

false

Disables the widget.

minLength

1

Specifies the number of characters the visitor needs to enter in the <input> before the list of suggestions is displayed. Can be set to 0 to make the widget display all suggestions in the menu.

position

{ my: "left top", at: "left bottom", collision: "none" }

Specifies how the list of suggestions should be positioned relative to the <input> element. This option is used in the exact same way, and accepts the same values...