A Massive Guide to Custom Theming jQuery UI Widgets. jQuery UI is an open source library of interface components that features interactions, animation effects and ready-to-use widgets. jQuery UI is based on the jQuery JavaScript library and is themeable, which makes integrating jQuery UI easy for developers of any skill level to integrate into their web pages and applications. This tutorial covers how to theme jQuery UI widgets and write custom CSS so that you can make your own jQuery UI theme.
Having a basic understanding of CSS and JavaScript will help you successfully complete this tutorial. Use the Table of Contents below to find the sections of the tutorial you are interested in reading. Non members please note: table of contents links will not work unless you are signed in to a Tuts+ Premium member account. Tutorial Information Tutorial Steps Custom Icons Sections Custom CSS Stylesheet Reference About This Tutorial For this tutorial, I wanted to show how you can customize and theme jQuery UI widgets to match a specific design style.
Building Websites and Browser Apps with jQuery Mobile: A Beginner’s Guide. Over the past 2-3 years we’ve seen a tremendous growth in browser and OS support for mobile websites. Most notably Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms come to mind. But others such as PalmOS and Blackberry are still in the mix. Up until recently it was very difficult to match a single mobile theme into all of these platforms. Pin it JavaScript was a start, but there hasn’t been any truly unified library until now. jQuery Mobile takes all the best features of jQuery and ports them over to a mobile-based web source. The library is more like a framework which includes animations, transition effects, and automatic CSS styles for basic HTML elements. Recommended Reading: Mobile App: Custom Themes with jQuery Mobile Features & OS Support The reason I suggest learning jQuery Mobile over any other frameworks is simplicity. Support is varying between phones and is broken into a chart of 3 categories from A-C.
If you want to learn more try reading up on their official docs page. Conclusion.
The Basics of jQuery ↩ Andrée. So, a while back I had an internal presentation at work about this topic. A few good friends in the community took a look at my slides, and they thought it would make a nice blog post because “there can’t be too many good posts about jQuery introduction and best-practices.” Whether this post is going to be good or not, is up to you but I’ll try to outline what jQuery is, and how you can start working with it.
For most of you, this will just be a re-cap and probably not provide much new information but can perhaps serve as a reference post if you ever need one. I will expect some basic knowledge about JavaScript but you do not have to be an expert, heck, you don’t even need to have used jQuery before—but you should know terms like object literals, anonymous functions, and what DOM and CSS are. What is jQuery? jQuery is a client-side JavaScript library that abstracts away browsers’ different implementations into an easy-to-use API. How do I use jQuery? Using selectors and instance methods. 10 Oven Fresh jQuery Plugins for UI. 10 fresh jQuery plugins for UI This is collection of most interesting fresh jQuery plugins for user interface. This is various plugins including wizardnotifications, editable tables, masks and other interesting plugins. 1.
Smart Wizard This is flixible jQuery plugin which you can use to make nice wizard interfaces. 2. With this plugin you can bring all the messages on the site in order. 3. jQXB Expression Binder This is bi-directional data binding between javascript objects and HTML elements. 4. HTSQL – query language and instant API for databases. 5. search list filtering Allow you to refine search results. 6. iMask Plugin to allow easy input masking for both static and numeric masks. 7. Nice looking password strength checker. 8. jCRUD New plugin to work with tables: create, read, update, and delete content of HTML tables. 9.
Browser based pin pad that protects the page from access until the correct code is put in. 10. jRate Conclusion. Kendo UI - The Art of Web Development. jQuery EasyUI - help you build your web page easily.