jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery

Dan Wellman

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Learning jQuery, Third Edition is a new book from Packt that explains how to create better interaction, design, and web development with simple JavaScript techniques.

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Organize your interfaces with reusable widgets: accordions, date pickers, dialogs, sliders, tabs, and more
Enhance the interactivity of your pages by making elements drag-and-droppable, sortable, selectable, and resizable
Packed with examples and clear explanations of how to easily design elegant and powerful front-end interfaces for your web applications
Revised and targeted at jQuery UI 1.7

Book Details

Language : English
Paperback : 392 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : November 2009
ISBN : 1847199720
ISBN 13 : 978-1-847199-72-0
Author(s) : Dan Wellman
Topics and Technologies : All Books, jQuery, Open Source, Web Development

Preface
Chapter 1: Introducing jQuery UI
Chapter 2: The CSS Framework
Chapter 3: Tabs
Chapter 4: The Accordion Widget
Chapter 5: The Dialog
Chapter 6: Slider
Chapter 7: Datepicker
Chapter 8: Progressbar
Chapter 9: Drag and Drop
Chapter 10: Resizing
Chapter 11: Selecting
Chapter 12: Sorting
Chapter 13: UI Effects
Index

Preface

Chapter 1: Introducing jQuery UI
- Downloading the library
- Setting up a development environment
- The structure of the library
- ThemeRoller
- Component categories
- Browser support
- Book examples
- Library licensing
- API introduction
  - Events and callbacks
  - Callback arguments
- Summary

Chapter 2: The CSS Framework
- The files that make up the framework
  - ui.all.css
  - ui.base.css
  - ui.core.css
  - The individual component framework files
  - ui.theme.css
  - Linking to the required framework files
- Using the framework classes
  - Containers
  - Interactions
  - Icons
  - Interaction cues
- Switching themes quickly and easily
- Overriding the theme
- Summary

Chapter 3: Tabs
- A basic tab implementation
- Tab CSS framework classes
- Applying a custom theme to the tabs
- Configurable options
  - Selecting a tab
  - Disabling a tab
  - Transition effects
  - Collapsible tabs
- Tab events
  - Binding to events
- Using tab methods
  - Enabling and disabling tabs
  - Adding and removing tabs
  - Simulating clicks
  - Creating a tab carousel
  - Getting and setting options
- AJAX tabs
- Displaying data obtained via JSONP
- Summary

Chapter 4: The Accordion Widget
- Accordion's structure
- Styling the accordion
- Configuring an accordion
  - Changing the trigger event
  - Changing the default active header
  - Filling the height of its container
  - Accordion animation
- Accordion events
  - The changestart event
- Accordion navigation
- Accordion methods
  - Destruction
  - Header activation
- Accordion interoperability
- A del.icio.us accordion
- Summary

Chapter 5: The Dialog
- A basic dialog
- Dialog options
  - Showing the dialog
  - Positioning the dialog
  - The title of the dialog
  - Modality
  - Adding buttons
  - Enabling dialog animations
  - Fixing IE6
  - Configuring the dialog's dimensions
  - Stacking
- Dialog's event model
- Controlling a dialog programmatically
  - Toggling the dialog
- Getting data from the dialog
- Dialog interoperability
- A dynamic image-based dialog
- Summary

Chapter 6: Slider
- Implementing a slider
- Custom styling
- Configurable options
  - Creating a vertical slider
  - Minimum and maximum values
  - Slider steps
  - Slider animation
  - Setting the slider's value
  - Using multiple handles
  - The range element
- Using slider's event API
- Slider methods
- Future uses
- A color slider
- Summary

Chapter 7: Datepicker
- The default datepicker
- Configurable options of the picker
  - Basic Options
  - Minimum and maximum dates
  - Changing the datepicker UI
  - Adding a trigger button
  - Configuring alternative animations
  - Multiple months
  - Changing the date format
  - Updating an additional input element
  - Localization
  - Callback properties
- Utility methods
- Date picking methods
  - Selecting a date programmatically
  - Showing the datepicker in a dialog
- An AJAX datepicker
- Summary

Chapter 8: Progressbar
- The default progressbar implementation
- Using progressbar's configuration option
- Progressbar's event API
- Progressbar methods
- User initiated progress
- Rich uploads with progressbar
- Summary

Chapter 9: Drag and Drop
- The deal with drag and droppables
- Draggables
  - A basic drag implementation
- Configuring draggable options
  - Using the configuration options
  - Resetting dragged elements
  - Drag handles
  - Helper elements
  - Constraining the drag
  - Snapping
- Draggable event callbacks
- Using draggable's methods
- Droppables
- Configuring droppables
  - Tolerance
- Droppable event callbacks
  - Scope
  - Greedy
- Droppable methods
- A drag and drop game
- Summary

Chapter 10: Resizing
- A basic resizable
- Resizable options
  - Configuring resize handles
  - Adding additional handle images
  - Defining size limits
  - Resize ghosts
  - Containing the resize
  - Handling the aspect ratio
  - Resizable animations
  - Simultaneous resizing
  - Preventing unwanted resizes
- Resizable callbacks
- Resizable methods
- Resizable tabs
- Summary

Chapter 11: Selecting
- Basic implementation
- Selectee class names
- Configurable options of the selectable component
  - Filtering selectables
  - Cancelling the selection
- Selectable callbacks
  - Working with vast amounts of selectables
- Selectable methods
- A selectable image viewer
  - Styling the image selector
- Summary

Chapter 12: Sorting
- The default implementation
- Configuring sortable options
  - Placeholders
  - Sortable helpers
  - Sortable items
  - Connected lists
- Reacting to sortable events
- Connected callbacks
- Sortable methods
- Widget compatibility
  - Adding draggables
- Sortable page widgets
  - The underlying page
  - Styling the page
  - The main script
  - Building the content boxes
  - Writing the cookie
  - Making the boxes sortable
  - Closing and restoring boxes
- Summary

Chapter 13: UI Effects
- The core effects file
  - Using color animations
  - Using class transitions
  - Advanced easing
- Highlighting specified elements
  - Additional effect arguments
- Bouncing
- Shaking an element
- Transferring an element's outline
- Element scaling
- Element explosion
- The puff effect
- The pulsate effect
- Dropping elements onto the page
- Sliding elements open or closed
- The window-blind effect
- Clipping elements
- Folding elements
- Summary

Index

Dan Wellman

Dan Wellman lives with his wife and three children in his home town of Southampton on the south coast of England. By day his mild-mannered alter-ego works for a small yet accomplished e-commerce production agency. By night he battles the forces of darkness and fights for truth, justice, and less intrusive JavaScript. He has been writing computer-related articles, tutorials, and reviews for around five years and is rarely very far from a keyboard of some description. This is his fourth book.

This is a very thorough book and definitely a solid resource for anyone looking to become familiar with the ins and outs of the library.

The book is a great help for people who are diving into the world of jQuery.

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What you will learn from this book

How the brand-new CSS framework styles each of the library components
Organizing different sections of related content as tabs and accordions to save space on your page while maximizing its content
Displaying messages, images, and interactive content like forms using the dialog widget
Using sliders for volume and color control of your applications by dynamically scrolling left and right, displaying different ranges
Allowing your site visitors to select dates from the calendar using the date picker widget
Adding an attractive and effective deterministic progress bar to give visitors essential feedback on how much longer a process has left to complete
Providing a drag-and-drop mechanism to let users directly rearrange elements around the page
Making a range of elements of a group selectable and taking collective actions on them
Creating a page with content boxes that can be sorted into various positions to suit the visitor's personal preference
Adding flair to your actions with animation effects

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In Detail

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.

Create powerful front-end interfaces for your web applications with jQuery UI

Approach

An example-based approach leads you step-by-step through the implementation and customization of each library component and its associated resources in turn. To emphasize the way that jQuery UI takes the difficulty out of user interface design and implementation, each chapter ends with a 'fun with' section that puts together what you've learned throughout the chapter to make a usable and fun page. In these sections you'll often get to experiment with the latest associated technologies like AJAX and JSON.

Who this book is for

This book is for front-end designers and developers who need to quickly learn how to use the jQuery UI User Interface Library. To get the most out of this book you should have a good working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and will need to be comfortable using jQuery, the underlying foundation of jQuery UI.