For jQuery UI developers this is the ultimate guide to maximizing
the potential of your user interfaces. Full of great practical
recipes that cover every widget in the framework, it's an
essential manual.
Overview
* Packed with recipes showing UI developers how to get the most
out of their jQuery UI widgets
* Solutions to real-world development issues distilled down in a
reader-friendly approach
* Code examples written in a concise and elegant format making it
easy for the reader to adapt to their own style
In Detail
jQuery UI is the quintessential framework for creating
professional user interfaces. While jQuery core lays the
foundation for interaction with the DOM and handling events,
jQuery UI fills in the user interaction gap. This book will give
you a huge productivity boost out of the box with jQuery UI, and
help you understand the framework, inside and out.
"jQuery UI Cookbook" provides you with practical recipes
featuring in-depth coverage of every widget in the framework,
including how to address limitations that impact your everyday
development activities with these widgets. You'll get a better
idea of the big picture – how the framework is composed, how the
widgets relate to one another, and how to build on those
patterns.
Be it a minor tweak on the visual design of a progress bar or a
fundamental change in a widget to meet your needs, "jQuery UI
Cookbook" covers scenarios both big and small. You can show
reminders as tooltips, apply a variety of effects to the menu
widget, and start interactions between the dialog widget and API
data using deferred objects. These and many more interesting
tasks are covered in this book, which can be done with smooth
learning and great understanding. You will see how button widgets
can fill the width of their containing element, making the layout
more consistent. Tabs can be sorted and moved between widgets.
You will learn how to do all these things within the context of
the big picture, by finding out why the components work the way
they do, making you well-versed in jQuery UI.
What you will learn from this book
* Benefits and tricks in each jQuery UI widget
* Build your own widget using the widget factory and the theme
framwork
* Built-in event-handling utilities for inter-widget
communication
* Extend widgets to provide the missing behavior your application
needs
* Extend and improve the design of each widget using the theme
framework, overriding defaults such as borders and backgrounds
* Details about different widget configurations not covered in
the jQuery UI documentation
* Discover the role of each widget in an application and how they
collectively contribute to a better user experience
* Explore coding conventions that work best when writing jQuery
UI code
* Learn about unique perspectives on approaches to widget
development – maintainability matters
Approach
Filled with a practical collection of recipes, jQuery UI
Cookbook is full of clear, step-by-step instructions that will
help you harness the powerful UI framework in jQuery. Depending
on your needs, you can dip in and out of the Cookbook and its
recipes, or follow the book from start to finish.
Who this book is written for
If you are a jQuery UI developer looking to improve your
existing applications, extract ideas for your new application, or
to better understand the overall widget architecture, then jQuery
UI Cookbook is a must-have for you. The reader should at least
have a rudimentary understanding of what jQuery UI is, and have
written some code that uses jQuery UI.