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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

Working with menu events


The menu widget defines a series of useful options that allow you to add callback functions to perform different actions when certain events exposed by the widget are detected. The following table lists the configuration options that are able to accept executable functions on an event:

Event

Triggered when…

blur

The menu loses focus

create

The menu is created

focus

The menu gains focus or when any menu item is activated

select

A menu item is selected

Each component of the library has callback options (such as those in the previous table), which are tuned to look for key moments in any visitor interactions. Any functions we use within these callbacks are usually executed before the change happens. Therefore, you can return false from your callback and prevent the action from occurring.

In our next example, we will look at how easy it is to react to a particular menu item being selected, using the standard non-bind technique. Remove the final <script...