Category: Jquery UI Widgets

Tooltip widget of jQueryUI replaces the native tooltips. This widget adds new themes and allows for customization. First let us understand what tooltips are? Tooltips can be attached to any element. To display tooltips, just add title attribute to input elements and title attribute value will be used as tooltip. When you hover the element with your…

Tabs are sets of logically grouped content that allow us to quickly flip between them to. Tabs allow us to save space like accordions. For tabs to work properly following set of markups needs to use − jQueryUI provides us tabs () method drastically changes the appearance of HTML elements inside the page. This method…

Spinner widget adds a up/down arrow to the left of a input box thus allowing a user to increment/decrement a value in the input box. It allows users to type a value directly, or modify an existing value by spinning with the keyboard, mouse or scrollwheel. It also has a step feature to skip values.…

A slider is used whenever a numeric value within a certain range is to be obtained. The advantage of a slider over text input is that it becomes impossible for the user to enter a bad value. Any value that they can pick with the slider is valid. jQueryUI provides us a slider control through slider widget.…

Progress bars indicate the completion percentage of an operation or process. We can categorize progress bar as determinate progress bar and indeterminate progress bar. Determinate progress bar should only be used in situations where the system can accurately update the current status. A determinate progress bar should never fill from left to right, then loop back to empty for…

A menu widget usually consists of a main menu bar with pop up menus. Items in pop up menus often have sub pop up menus. A menu can be created using the markup elements as long as the parent-child relation is maintained (using <ul> or <ol>). Each menu item has an anchor element. The Menu…

Dialog boxes are one of the nice ways of presenting information on an HTML page. A dialog box is a floating window with a title and content area. This window can be moved, resized, and of course, closed using “X” icon by default. jQueryUI provides dialog() method that transforms the HTML code written on the page into…

Datepickers in jQueryUI allow users to enter dates easily and visually. You can customize the date format and language, restrict the selectable date ranges and add in buttons and other navigation options easily. jQueryUI provides datepicker() method that creates a datepicker and changes the appearance of HTML elements on a page by adding new CSS classes. Transforms…

jQueryUI provides button() method to transform the HTML elements (like buttons, inputs and anchors) into themeable buttons, with automatic management of mouse movements on them, all managed transparently by jQuery UI. In order to group radio buttons, Button also provides an additional widget, called Buttonset. Buttonset is used by selecting a container element (which contains the radio buttons)…

Auto completion is a mechanism frequently used in modern websites to provide the user with a list of suggestions for the beginning of the word, which he/she has typed in a text box. The user can then select an item from the list, which will be displayed in the input field. This feature prevents the…