Chapter 6. Extended Animations with jQuery UI

jQuery UI is the official user interface library for jQuery and adds a suite of interactive widgets such as tabs and accordions, a series of interaction helpers such as drag and drop, and a comprehensive set of effects that extend those provided natively by jQuery.

Over the course of this chapter, we'll be looking at the additional effects added by jQuery UI. Topics we'll cover include:

  • Obtaining and setting up jQuery UI
  • The new effects added by jQuery UI
  • Using the effect() method
  • Extending the show(), hide(), and toggle() methods
  • Using easing with jQuery UI
  • Animating an element's color
  • Animated class transitions

jQuery UI adds several new animation methods, as well as modifying several jQuery methods. The ...

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