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jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery

You're reading from   jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery Build highly interactive web applications with ready-to-use widgets from the jQuery User Interface library

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847199720
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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jQuery UI 1.7
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Introducing jQuery UI FREE CHAPTER 2. The CSS Framework 3. Tabs 4. The Accordion Widget 5. The Dialog 6. Slider 7. Datepicker 8. Progressbar 9. Drag and Drop 10. Resizing 11. Selecting 12. Sorting 13. UI Effects Index

Switching themes quickly and easily


After developing a new widget using the base theme, we may decide that we want to switch to a fancier theme or one that fits in better with our site when we deploy it. People might want to use a different theme than the one we chose when downloading the library if we wrote and released a new plugin. Thankfully, the CSS framework makes switching themes a painless task. Looking at the previous example, all we need to do to change the skin of the widget is choose a new theme using ThemeRoller, and then download the new theme (we can download just the new theme by deselecting all of the components in the download builder).

Within the downloaded archive there would be a directory with the name of the chosen theme, such as dot-luv. We drag the theme folder out of the archive and into the development-bundle\themes folder and link the new theme file from our page, giving our form a completely new look as shown in the following figure:

The theme I used to obtain...

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