Libby - JQuery tools UI library: learn jQuery tools with clear, practical examples and get inspiration for developing your own ideas with the library: [community experience distilled]

Alex Libby holds a Masters' degree in e-commerce from Coventry University, and currently works as a Sharepoint Technical Analyst for a well-known parts distributor based in the UK. Alex has used jQuery Tools as part of his daily work for the last 18 months, and enjoys the challenge of working out simple solutions to common issues using jQuery and jQuery Tools, particularly using a progressive enhancement methodology.

Prior to this, he spent a number of years in IT Support, working in the banking, health, and defense publishing industries. Alex has also been instrumental in releasing the current version of jQuery Tools as featured in jQuery Tools UI Library , and enjoys helping out others in the forums to figure out solutions to their issues when using the software.

I would like to thank my family and friends for their support while writing the book. I would also like to thank Tero Piiranen for releasing such an awesome library, and to Brad Robertson and Mudimo Okondo for helping with tips, bug fixes for the current release of jQuery Tools, the awesome flower pictures used in the demos, and inspiration for the book.

I would particularly like to thank Joy Jones, without whom I probably would never have considered writingyou've done more than you probably could ever realize, Joy!

Jake Kronika , a web designer and developer with over 15 years of experience, brings to this book a strong background in front-end development with JavaScript and jQuery, as well as significant training in server-side languages and frameworks.

Having earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2005, with a minor in Business Administration, Jake went on to become Senior User Interface (UI) Specialist for Imaginary Landscape LLC, a small web development firm in the Ravenswood neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. In this role, the foundations of his strengths in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) were honed and finely tuned.

From there, Jake went on to work for the Sun-Times News Group, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and numerous suburban newspapers in Chicago. It was in this role that he was initially exposed and rapidly gained expert skills with the jQuery framework for JS.

Following intermediate positions as Technology Consultant with Objective Arts, Inc, and as UI Prototyper for JP Morgan Chase, Jake moved across the United States to Seattle, WA, where he assumed his current role of Senior UI Software Engineer with the Cobalt Group, an online marketing division of Automatic Data Processing Inc (ADP) Dealer Services. Since 1999, he has also operated Gridline Design & Development (so named in 2009), a sole proprietorship for web design, development, and administration.

Jake has reviewed two other books by Packt Publishing, namely, Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery , authored by Jonathan Howard (2011) and JQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery , authored by Dan Wellman (2011).

Deepak Vohra is a consultant and a principal member of the NuBean.com software company. Deepak is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer. He has worked in the fields of XML and Java programming and J2EE for over five years.

Deepak is the co-author of Pro XML Development with Java Technology published by Apress and was the technical reviewer for WebLogic: The Definitive Guide published by O'Reilly. Deepak was also the technical reviewer for the Course Technology PTR book Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner , and the technical editor for the Manning Publications book Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action .

Deepak is also the author of the Packt Publishing books JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development, Processing XML Documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g , and EJB 3.0 Database Persistence with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g .

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Preface

"Let's face itdo you really need drag and drop, resizable windows, or sortable lists on your website?"

If the answer is no, then welcome to "jQuery Tools UI Library"!

jQuery Tools is a compact, powerful library that contains enough components to provide the most important functionality on any website. Many UI libraries contain a myriad of components, such as list boxes, ranges, sortable lists, and the like. While this can be used to build a range of online-based applications that are useful in company intranets, for example, it is not so useful when building normal websites.