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jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery

You're reading from   jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery Need to learn how to use JQuery UI speedily? Our guide will take you through implementing and customizing each library component in clear, concise steps, all supported by practical examples to make learning faster.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162209
Length 502 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing jQuery UI FREE CHAPTER 2. The CSS Framework and Other Utilities 3. Using the Tabs Widget 4. The Accordion Widget 5. The Dialog 6. The Slider and Progressbar Widgets 7. The Datepicker Widget 8. The Button and Autocomplete Widgets 9. Creating Menus 10. Working with Tooltips 11. Drag and Drop 12. The Resizable Component 13. Selecting and Sorting with jQuery UI 14. UI Effects Help and Support Index

Getting started with the draggable widget


The draggables component is used to make any specified element or collection of elements draggable, so that they can be picked up and moved around the page by a visitor. Draggability is a great effect, and is a feature that can be used in numerous ways to improve the interface of our web pages.

Using jQuery UI means that we don't have to worry about all of the tricky differences between browsers that originally made draggable elements on web pages a nightmare to implement and maintain.

Implementing a basic drag

Let's look at the default implementation by first making a simple <div> element draggable. We won't do any additional configuration. Therefore, all that this code will allow you to do is pick up the element with the mouse pointer and drag it around the viewport.

In a new file in your text editor, add the following code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Draggable</title...
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