The Best jQuery UI eBooks of All Time

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 widgetsSolutions to real-world development issues distilled down in a reader-friendly approachCode examples written in a concise and elegant format making it easy for the reader to adapt to their own styleIn 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 widgetBuild your own widget using the widget factory and the theme framworkBuilt-in event-handling utilities for inter-widget communicationExtend widgets to provide the missing behavior your application needsExtend and improve the design of each widget using the theme framework, overriding defaults such as borders and backgroundsDetails about different widget configurations not covered in the jQuery UI documentationDiscover the role of each widget in an application and how they collectively contribute to a better user experienceExplore coding conventions that work best when writing jQuery UI codeLearn about unique perspectives on approaches to widget development – maintainability mattersApproach. 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.

Summary. jQuery UI in Action is a practical guide to using and customizing jQuery UI library components to build rich, user-friendly web applications. By working through numerous engaging examples, you'll move quickly from placing a datepicker on the page to building a complete user interface that includes features like a contact form and shopping cart. You'll master jQuery UI's five main interactions—draggable, droppable, resizable, selectable, and sortable—and learn UI techniques that work across all devices. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Book. You're only one tag away from richer user interfaces — ‹script src="jquery-ui.js"›. The jQuery UI library simplifies web UI development by providing robust widgets, interactions, and effects you can use immediately. It includes datepickers, autocompletes, tooltips, and a whole lot more. And, jQuery UI's powerful widget factory makes it a snap to customize existing components to meet your needs. jQuery UI in Action is a practical guide to using and customizing jQuery UI library components. By working through numerous examples, you'll quickly master jQuery UI's twelve widgets and five interactions—draggable, droppable, resizable, selectable, and sortable. The engaging examples illustrate techniques that work across all devices. You'll use the widget factory to create reusable plugins and discover jQuery UI's CSS theming system that allows you to create a custom, cohesive look for your sites and your applications. Written for front-end developers and web designers with a basic understanding of jQuery. What's Inside. Create interactions that work on any deviceCustomizable widgets for web and mobile appsWritten by a member of the core jQuery UI teamCovers jQuery UI 1.11. About the Author. A professional web developer, TJ VanToll is a member of the jQuery UI core team. Table of Contents. PART 1 MEET JQUERY UIIntroducing jQuery UIEnhancing UIs with widgetsPART 2 JQUERY UI COREBuilding complex web forms with jQuery UIEnhancing interfaces with layout and utility widgetsAdding interaction to your interfacesCreating rich animations with effectsTheming and styling applications with jQuery UIPART 3 CUSTOMIZATION AND ADVANCED USAGEUsing the widget factory to build stateful pluginsExtending widgets with the widget factoryPreparing your application for productionBuilding a flight-search applicationUnder the hood 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 comfortable using jQuery, the underlying foundation of jQuery UI.