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jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery

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jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery

Overview of this book

Modern web application user interface design requires rapid development and proven results. jQuery UI, a trusted suite of official plug-ins for the jQuery JavaScript library, gives you a solid platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces with maximum compatibility and stability, and minimum time and effort. jQuery UI has a series of ready-made, great-looking user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interaction helpers designed to be implemented in a consistent and developer-friendly way. With all this, the amount of code that you need to write personally to take a project from conception to completion is drastically reduced. Specially revised for version 1.7 of jQuery UI, this book has been written to maximize your experience with the library by breaking down each component and walking you through examples that progressively build upon your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced usage in a series of easy-to-follow steps. In this book, you'll learn how each component can be initialized in a basic default implementation and then see how easy it is to customize its appearance and configure its behavior to tailor it to the requirements of your application. You'll look at the configuration options and the methods exposed by each component's API to see how these can be used to bring out the best of the library. Events play a key role in any modern web application if it is to meet the expected minimum requirements of interactivity and responsiveness, and each chapter will show you the custom events fired by the component covered and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
jQuery UI 1.7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Date picking methods


Along with the wide range of configuration options at our disposal, there are also a number of useful methods defined that make working with the datepicker a breeze. The datepicker API exposes the following methods.

Method

Usage

dialog

Open the datepicker in a dialog widget.

getDate

Get the currently selected date.

hide

Programmatically close a datepicker.

isDisabled

Determine whether a datepicker is disabled.

setDate

Programmatically select a date.

show

Programmatically show a datepicker.

Along with the common methods shared by all library components the datepicker also provides a range of unique methods for working with the widget programmatically including show, hide, getDate, setDate, isDisabled, and dialog.

Selecting a date programmatically

There may be times when we want to be able to set a particular date from within our program logic without the visitor using the datepicker widget in the usual way. Let's look at a basic example. Remove the <option...