May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
10h 10m
English
As we saw in Chapter 7, Using Plugins, jQuery UI has an assortment of widgets--plugins that present a particular kind of UI element, such as a button or slider. These widgets present a consistent API to JavaScript programmers. This consistency makes learning to use one easy. When a plugin that we're writing will create a new user interface element, extending the jQuery UI library with a widget plugin is often the right choice.
A widget is an intricate piece of functionality, but fortunately we are not left to our own devices in creating one. The jQuery UI core contains a factory method called $.widget(), which does a lot of the work for us. Using this factory will help ensure that our code ...
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