Book Image

jQuery Mobile First Look

Book Image

jQuery Mobile First Look

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
jQuery Mobile First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the theme framework


Visually, jQuery mobile offers a range of themes that, by default, draw inspiration from a variety of UI elements and mix them all together to create an original, yet somewhat familiar, user experience.

Instead of trying to make the elements explicitly look like those from another library or framework, or trying to reproduce the feel of a popular mobile OS, jQuery Mobile defines a new set of looks and experiences for mobile applications.

The default theme for jQuery Mobile looks very nice indeed, combining colors from two of the five swatches already available out of the box to apply to your web pages.

The theme framework implemented in jQuery Mobile relies on CSS3 specifications in order to reduce the page weight: rounded corners, box and text shadows, and gradients are all obtained making use of CSS3 properties.

The visual effects we are able to design combining "normal" CSS techniques and a bunch of these new properties can be packaged together in themes , which...