Skip to Main Content
Learning jQuery: A Hands-on Guide to Building Rich Interactive Web Front Ends
book

Learning jQuery: A Hands-on Guide to Building Rich Interactive Web Front Ends

by Ralph Steyer
April 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
13h 57m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Learning jQuery: A Hands-on Guide to Building Rich Interactive Web Front Ends

12. Plug-Ins

The entire jQuery framework consists of the jQuery core and the jQuery UI. Essentially, however, the framework can be expanded as much as you like. The expansions are referred to as plug-ins. They are pure JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) libraries, but they have to conform to certain predefined rules. By now, there is a huge number of these plug-ins, which are often available for free (and sometimes commercial) use via the jQuery website. Basically, any jQuery developer can publish plug-ins there. And you, as a website designer or user of the jQuery framework, can use these plug-ins if they offer a functionality that you do not want to create yourself and that the native framework does not offer. In this chapter, we take ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

jQuery: Visual QuickStart Guide

jQuery: Visual QuickStart Guide

Steven Holzner
Beyond jQuery

Beyond jQuery

Ray Nicholus

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780132931588Purchase book