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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

Configuring menu options


Each of the different components in the library has a series of options that control which features of the widget are enabled by default. An object literal, or an object reference, can be passed in to the menu() widget method to configure these options.

The available options to configure non-default behaviors are shown in the following table:

Option

Default value

Use

disabled

false

Disables the menu if set to true.

icons

{submenu: "ui-icon-carat-1-e"}

Sets the icons to use for submenus, matching an icon provided by the jQuery UI CSS framework.

menus

"ul"

Assigns the selector for the elements that serve as the menu container, including submenus.

position

{ my: "left top", at: "right top" }

Identifies the position of submenus in relation to the associated parent menu item. The of option defaults to the parent menu item, but you can specify another element to position against. There are more details on how to use the positioning widget...