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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

Switching themes quickly and easily


Once we have developed content using the base theme, we may decide to change the theme to something that fits in better with our overall site theme; thankfully, the CSS framework makes switching themes a painless task. Looking at the previous example, all we need to do to change the skin of the widget is choose a new theme using ThemeRoller (available at http://www.jqueryui.com/themeroller), and then download the new theme. We can download the new theme by selecting all of the components in the download builder and clicking on Download to obtain the theme.

Within the downloaded archive, there will be a directory with the name of the chosen theme, such as redmond. We drag the theme folder out of the archive into the development-bundle\themes folder and link the new theme file from our page, giving our form a completely new look as shown in the following screenshot:

The theme I used to obtain this screenshot is redmond. This uses various shades of blue, either...

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