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jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery Table of Contents


Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introducing jQuery UI
Chapter 2: The CSS Framework and Other Utilities
Chapter 3: Using the Tabs Widget
Chapter 4: The Accordion Widget
Chapter 5: The Dialog
Chapter 6: The Slider Widget
Chapter 7: The Datepicker Widget
Chapter 8: The Progressbar Widget
Chapter 9: The Button and Autocomplete Widgets
Chapter 10: Drag and Drop
Chapter 11: The Resizable Component
Chapter 12: The Selectables Component
Chapter 13: The Sortables Component
Chapter 14: UI Effects
Index

  • 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 and Other Utilities
      • The files that make up the framework
        • jquery.ui.all.css
        • jquery.ui.base.css
        • jquery.ui.core.css
          • The individual component framework files
        • jquery.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
      • The position utility
        • Using the position utility
      • Collision avoidance
      • Positioning with a function
      • The widget factory
      • Creating the widget
      • The _create function
      • The common API methods
      • Adding custom methods
      • The widget style sheet
      • Using the widget
      • Summary
      • Chapter 3: Using the Tabs Widget
        • 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
        • Changing the URL of a remote tab's content
        • Reloading a remote tab
        • 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
            • Using the change event
            • The changestart event
          • Accordion navigation
          • Accordion methods
            • Header activation
            • Resizing an accordion panel
          • Accordion interoperability
          • Summary
          • Chapter 5: The Dialog
            • Creating a basic dialog
            • Dialog options
              • Showing the dialog
              • The title of the dialog
              • Modality
              • Adding buttons
              • Enabling dialog animations
              • Configuring the dialog's dimensions
              • Stacking
            • Dialog's event model
            • Controlling a dialog programmatically
              • Toggling the dialog
            • Getting data from the dialog
            • Dialog interoperability
            • Creating a dynamic image-based dialog
            • Summary
            • Chapter 6: The Slider Widget
              • 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
              • Practical uses
              • A color slider
              • Summary
              • Chapter 7: The Datepicker Widget
                • The default datepicker
                • Configurable options of the datepicker
                  • Basic options
                  • Minimum and maximum dates
                  • Changing the elements in 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 box
                • An AJAX datepicker
                • Summary
                • Chapter 8: The Progressbar Widget
                  • The default progressbar implementation
                  • Progressbar's configuration options
                    • Setting progressbar's value
                  • Progressbar's event API
                  • Progressbar methods
                  • User initiated progress
                  • Rich uploads with progressbar
                  • Summary
                  • Chapter 9: The Button and Autocomplete Widgets
                    • The button widget
                      • Standard implementations
                      • Theming
                      • Configurable options
                      • Button icons
                      • Input icons
                      • Button events
                      • Buttonsets
                        • Checkbox buttonsets
                        • Radio buttonsets
                      • Button methods
                    • The autocomplete widget
                      • Working with local data sources
                        • Using an array of objects as the data source
                      • Configurable autocomplete options
                        • Configuring minimum length
                        • Appending the suggestion list to an alternative element
                      • Autocomplete events
                      • Autocomplete methods
                      • Working with remote data sources
                        • Using a string as the value of the source option
                        • Using a function as the value of the source option
                      • Displaying HTML in the list of suggestions
                    • Summary
                    • Chapter 10: 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
                      • Draggable's methods
                      • Droppables
                      • Configuring droppables
                        • Configuring accepted draggables
                        • Tolerance
                      • Droppable event callbacks
                        • Scope
                        • Greedy
                      • Droppable methods
                      • A drag and drop game
                      • Summary
                      • Chapter 11: The Resizable Component
                        • A basic resizable
                        • Resizable options
                          • Configuring resize handles
                          • Adding additional handle images
                          • Defining size limits
                          • Resizing ghosts
                          • Containing the resize
                          • Handling aspect ratio
                          • Resizable animations
                          • Simultaneous resizing
                          • Preventing unwanted resizes
                        • Resizable callbacks
                        • Resizable methods
                        • Resizable tabs
                        • Summary
                        • Chapter 12: The Selectables Component
                          • Basic implementation
                          • Selectee class names
                          • Configurable options of the selectable component
                            • Filtering selectables
                            • Canceling the selection
                          • Selectable callbacks
                            • Working with vast amounts of selectables
                          • Selectable methods
                            • Refreshing selectables
                          • A selectable image viewer
                            • Styling the image selector
                            • Adding the behaviour
                          • Summary
                          • Chapter 13: The Sortables Component
                            • The default implementation
                            • Configuring sortable options
                              • Placeholders
                              • Sortable helpers
                              • Sortable items
                              • Connected lists
                            • Reacting to sortable events
                            • Connected callbacks
                            • Sortable methods
                              • Serializing
                            • Widget compatibility
                              • Adding draggables
                            • Summary
                            • Chapter 14: 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
                                • Using easing
                              • The window-blind effect
                              • Clipping elements
                              • Folding elements
                              • Summary

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