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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

Exploring the menu CSS framework classes


Using Firebug for Firefox (or another generic DOM explorer), we can see that a variety of classnames are added to the different underlying HTML elements that go to make up a menu widget.

Let's review these classnames briefly and see how they contribute to the overall appearance of the widget. To the outer container <ul>, the following classnames are added:

Classname

Applies/Applied to

ui-menu

The outer container of the menu.

ui-widget

The outer container of all widgets. It sets font family and font size to widgets.

ui-widget-content

Applies content container styles to an element and its child text, links, and icons (applicable to a parent or sibling of the header).

ui-corner-all

Applies corner radius to all four corners of the element

ui-menu-icons

The submenu icons set via the icons option when initiating the menu.

The first element within the container is the <li> element. This element receives the following classnames...