jQuery UI
2.Once you've downloaded jQuery UI, you'll get a zip containing the following files:
- /css/
- /development-bundle/
- /js/
- index.html
3.Open up index.html in a text editor and you'll see that it links to a few dependencies: your theme, jQuery, and jQuery UI. Generally, you'll need to include these 3 files on any page to use jQuery UI widgets and interactions:
<link type="text/css" href="css/themename/jquery-ui-1.7.1.custom.css" rel="Stylesheet" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui-1.7.1.custom.min.js"></script>
Once you've included the necessary files, you can add some jQuery widgets to your page. For example, to make a datepicker widget, you'll add a text input element to your page and then call .datepicker(); on it. Like this:
HTML: <input type="text" name="date" id="date" />
JS:
$('#date').datepicker();
4.jQuery UI basics: using options
Each plugin in jQuery UI has a default configuration which is catered to the most basic and common use case. But if you want a plugin to behave different from its default configuration, you can override each of its default settings using "options". Options are a set of properties passed into a jQuery UI widget as an argument. For example, the slider widget has an option for orientation, which allows you to specify whether the slider should be horizontal or vertical. To set this option for a slider on your page, you just pass it in as an argument, like this:
$('#mySliderDiv').slider({
orientation: 'vertical'
});
