jQuery UI in Action

DESCRIPTION Building a consistent, high-quality web user interface can be time consuming and technically challenging. jQuery UI radically simplifies the process by providing a robust set of widgets, interactions, effects, and themes that can used immediately. And, jQuery UI's powerful widget factory [...]
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DESCRIPTION Building a consistent, high-quality web user interface can be time consuming and technically challenging. jQuery UI radically simplifies the process by providing a robust set of widgets, interactions, effects, and themes that can used immediately. And, jQuery UI's powerful widget factory makes it a snap to customize existing components to match the look, feel, and function of readers' apps. jQuery UI in Action is a practical guide to using and customizing jQuery UI library components to build rich, user-friendly web applications. Using numerous engaging examples, it moves quickly from showing users how to place a datepicker on the page to building a complete user interface that includes features like a contact form and shopping cart. Readers will master jQuery UI's five main interactions-draggable, droppable, resizable, selectable, and sortable-and learn UI techniques that work across all devices. At the core of the book is a comprehensive guide to the jQuery UI widget factory, a battle tested solution for creating stateful jQuery plugins.RETAIL SELLING POINTS Comprehensive guide to using jQuery UI's widgets Insights from a member of JQuery UI's core team Create interactions that will work on any device Create custom themes that can be used across a site or applications AUDIENCE Written with front end developers and web designers in mind, readers need only a basic understanding of the jQuery library. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY jQuery UI is an open source JavaScript library that gives the users the ability to easily add widgets such as datepickers and tooltips, interactions such as drag and drop, effects such as fading in and out, and themes to their web sites or applications.