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jQuery UI Cookbook

You're reading from   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.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162186
Length 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

jQuery UI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Creating Accordions FREE CHAPTER 2. Including Autocompletes 3. Crafting Buttons 4. Developing Datepickers 5. Adding Dialogs 6. Making Menus 7. Progress Bars 8. Using Sliders 9. Using Spinners 10. Using Tabs 11. Using Tooltips 12. Widgets and More! Index

Button icons and hiding text


With buttons, developers can choose to render icon-only buttons. This is accomplished by telling the button we don't want the text displayed. This is easy enough to do and serves a number of use cases—often, depending on context, an icon will suffice in explaining its action. What's more, we can add the button label back any time we wish with a simple option change. We can do this because the button text is part of the underlying HTML component. With icons, however, things become a little trickier because they're an adornment on the button. We can't turn the icons on and off as we can do with the text—the entire icon specification needs to be applied once again.

Something to aim for, then, would be a method to specify the icons in the button constructor, but remember them once turned off. This way, the icons will behave as though they're part of the original DOM element.

Getting ready

We'll start with creating the structure necessary for three icon buttons. We'll...

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