Modern web application user interface design requires rapid development and
proven results. jQuery UI, a trusted suite of official plugins for the jQuery JavaScript
library, gives you a solid platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces
with maximum compatibility, stability, and a minimum of 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, 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.
