Learning the Yahoo User Interface library

Create powerful front-end interfaces for your web applications with jQuery UI. This book is for front-end designers and developers that need to quickly learn how to use the jQuery UI User Interface Library. To get the most out of this book you should have a good working knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and will need to be comfortable using jQuery, the underlying foundation of jQuery UI....

An example-based approach leads you step-by-step through the implementation and customization of each library component and its associated resources in turn. To emphasize the way that jQuery UI takes the difficulty out of user interface design and implementation, each chapter ends with a 'fun with' section that puts together what you've learned throughout the chapter to make a usable and fun page. In these sections you'll often get to experiment with the latest associated technologies like AJAX and JSON.This book is for front-end designers and developers who need to quickly learn how to use the jQuery UI User Interface Library. To get the most out of this book you should have a good working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and will need to be ...

Build highly interactive web applications with ready-to-use widgets from the jQuery User Interface library Packed with examples and clear explanations of how to easily design elegant and powerful front-end interfaces for your web applications A section covering the widget factory including an in-depth example on how to build a custom jQuery UI widget Updated code with significant changes and fixes to the previous edition In Detail jQuery UI, the official suite of 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 user interface widgets and a comprehensive set of core interact...