Build powerful and interactive web applications with jQuery UI using Packt’s new book
jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery is a new book that helps developers create powerful front-end interfaces for their web applications with jQuery UI.
jQuery is an open source library of interface components such as interactions, full-featured widgets, and animation effects, based on the stellar jQuery JavaScript library. Each component is built according to jQuery’s event-driven architecture and is themeable, thereby making it easy for developers of any skill level to integrate and extend into their own code.
Through this book, developers will learn how the brand-new CSS framework styles each of the jQuery library components. They can enhance the interactivity of their pages by displaying messages and images using the dialog widget, adding the deterministic progress bar for giving visitor feedback and providing a drag-and-drop mechanism for rearrangement of the elements around their pages.
This is an example-based book which gives developers a step-by-step approach through the implementation and customization of each library component, thereby helping them bring out the best of the library. They will also be able to assemble their interfaces using latest technologies like AJAX and JSON which are mentioned at the end of each chapter in the ‘Fun With’ section.
Front-end designers and developers who have working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and are willing to learn the jQuery UI User Interface Library will find this book beneficial.
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.
Read the full Table of Contents for jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery
You can find the sample chapter here: http://www.packtpub.com/files/9720-jquery-ui-1-7-sample-chapter-3-tabs.pdf.