Chapter 3
Getting to Know jQuery UI
IN THIS CHAPTER
Introducing jQuery UI
Creating a custom version of jQuery UI
Including the jQuery UI code in your page
Trying out a few jQuery UI widgets
Playing around with jQuery UI interactions and effects
Because jQuery UI runs on top of jQuery, the syntax used to initialize, configure, and manipulate the different components is in the same comfortable, easy-to-use, and short-hand style that we’ve all come to know and love through using jQuery. Therefore, getting used to it is incredibly easy.
— DAN WELLMAN
In Chapters 1 and 2 of this minibook, I go through the basics of jQuery and showed how easy jQuery makes it to select elements, manipulate tags, CSS properties, and HTML attributes, and build interactive and fun pages with events and animations. jQuery’s ease and power make it an indispensable tool in the modern web developer’s workshop, but as powerful as it is, jQuery can’t do everything. In particular, jQuery doesn’t offer much — okay, ...
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