jQuery UI Cookbook

For jQuery UI developers this is the ultimate guide to maximizing the potential of your user interfaces. Full of great practical recipes that cover every widget in the framework, it's an essential manual.

Overview

• Packed with recipes showing UI developers how to get the most out of their jQuery UI widgets
• Solutions to real-world development issues distilled down in a reader-friendly approach
• Code examples written in a concise and elegant format making it easy for the reader to adapt to their own style

In Detail

jQuery UI is the quintessential framework for creating professional user interfaces. While jQuery core lays the foundation for interaction with the DOM and handling events, jQuery UI fills in the user interaction gap. This book will give you a huge productivity boost out of the box with jQuery UI, and help you understand the framework, inside and out.

"jQuery UI Cookbook" provides you with practical recipes featuring in-depth coverage of every widget in the framework, including how to address limitations that impact your everyday development activities with these widgets. You'll get a better idea of the big picture – how the framework is composed, how the widgets relate to one another, and how to build on those patterns.

Be it a minor tweak on the visual design of a progress bar or a fundamental change in a widget to meet your needs, "jQuery UI Cookbook" covers scenarios both big and small. You can show reminders as tooltips, apply a variety of effects to the menu widget, and start interactions between the dialog widget and API data using deferred objects. These and many more interesting tasks are covered in this book, which can be done with smooth learning and great understanding. You will see how button widgets can fill the width of their containing element, making the layout more consistent. Tabs can be sorted and moved between widgets. You will learn how to do all these things within the context of the big picture, by finding out why the components work the way they do, making you well-versed in jQuery UI.

What you will learn from this book

• Benefits and tricks in each jQuery UI widget
• Build your own widget using the widget factory and the theme framwork
• Built-in event-handling utilities for inter-widget communication
• Extend widgets to provide the missing behavior your application needs
• Extend and improve the design of each widget using the theme framework, overriding defaults such as borders and backgrounds
• Details about different widget configurations not covered in the jQuery UI documentation
• Discover the role of each widget in an application and how they collectively contribute to a better user experience
• Explore coding conventions that work best when writing jQuery UI code
• Learn about unique perspectives on approaches to widget development – maintainability matters

Approach

Filled with a practical collection of recipes, jQuery UI Cookbook is full of clear, step-by-step instructions that will help you harness the powerful UI framework in jQuery. Depending on your needs, you can dip in and out of the Cookbook and its recipes, or follow the book from start to finish.

Who this book is written for

If you are a jQuery UI developer looking to improve your existing applications, extract ideas for your new application, or to better understand the overall widget architecture, then jQuery UI Cookbook is a must-have for you. The reader should at least have a rudimentary understanding of what jQuery UI is, and have written some code that uses jQuery UI.

對於 jQuery UI 開發者來說，這是一本極致指南，可以最大限度地發揮您的使用者介面的潛力。這本書充滿了實用的食譜，涵蓋了框架中的每個小工具，是一本必備手冊。

概述：
- 充滿了食譜，向 UI 開發者展示如何充分利用他們的 jQuery UI 小工具
- 以讀者友好的方式提煉出解決現實開發問題的解決方案
- 代碼示例以簡潔優雅的格式書寫，讓讀者能夠輕鬆適應自己的風格

詳細內容：
jQuery UI 是創建專業使用者介面的典型框架。雖然 jQuery 核心為與 DOM 互動和處理事件奠定了基礎，但 jQuery UI 則填補了使用者互動的空白。這本書將讓您在使用 jQuery UI 時獲得巨大的生產力提升，並幫助您全面了解這個框架。

《jQuery UI Cookbook》為您提供了實用的食譜，深入介紹了框架中的每個小工具，包括如何解決影響您日常開發活動的這些小工具的限制。您將對整個框架的大局有更好的了解，了解小工具之間的關係，以及如何在這些模式的基礎上進一步構建。

無論是對進度條的視覺設計進行微調，還是對小工具進行根本性的更改以滿足您的需求，《jQuery UI Cookbook》都涵蓋了大小不一的場景。您可以將提醒顯示為工具提示，對菜單小工具應用各種效果，並使用延遲對象在對話框小工具和 API 數據之間啟動交互。這本書涵蓋了許多有趣的任務，可以通過平滑的學習和深入的理解完成。您將看到如何使按鈕小工具填充其包含元素的寬度，使佈局更加一致。標籤可以在小工具之間進行排序和移動。您將學習如何在整體框架的背景下完成所有這些操作，了解這些組件的工作原理，使您精通 jQuery UI。

從這本書中您將學到：
- 每個 jQuery UI 小工具的好處和技巧
- 使用小工具工廠和主題框架構建自己的小工具
- 內置的事件處理工具，用於小工具之間的通信
- 擴展小工具以提供應用程序所需的缺失行為
- 使用主題框架擴展和改進每個小工具的設計，覆蓋默認值，如邊框和背景
- 關於 jQuery UI 文件中未涵蓋的不同小工具配置的詳細信息
- 了解應用程序中每個小工具的角色，以及它們如何共同為更好的使用者體驗做出貢獻
- 探索在編寫 jQuery UI 代碼時最佳的編碼慣例
- 了解小工具開發的獨特觀點 - 可維護性很重要

方法：
《jQuery UI Cookbook》充滿了實用的食譜，提供了清晰的逐步指示，幫助您充分利用 jQuery 中強大的 UI 框架。根據您的需求，您可以隨意翻閱食譜，或從頭到尾閱讀整本書。

本書適合對現有應用程序進行改進的 jQuery UI 開發者，從中提取新應用程序的想法，或更好地理解整體小工具架構。讀者至少應該對 jQuery UI 有基本的了解，並且已經編寫過使用 jQuery UI 的一些代碼。