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jQuery UI Cookbook

You're reading from  jQuery UI Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782162186
Pages 290 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Adam Boduch Adam Boduch
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

jQuery UI Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Creating Accordions 2. Including Autocompletes 3. Crafting Buttons 4. Developing Datepickers 5. Adding Dialogs 6. Making Menus 7. Progress Bars 8. Using Sliders 9. Using Spinners 10. Using Tabs 11. Using Tooltips 12. Widgets and More! Index

Controlling spacing with themes


The space between accordion sections is controlled by the CSS theme framework. In particular, the visual structure for the accordion is defined by a set of CSS rules that can be modified to control the spacing between accordion sections. We could override the accordion theme CSS to adjust for more or less spacing between sections.

How to do it...

We're going to supply an additional CSS module to our UI—one that overrides the accordion structure supplied in the theme we happen to be using. There's no need to fret, however, our change is a simple one. We're going to update the margin-top property. In a new CSS file called theme.accordion.css, let's add the following style rules:

.ui-accordion .ui-accordion-header {
    margin-top: 4px;
}

Now that we have the CSS, we need to include it in our HTML header. It should look something like this:

How it works...

We're copying the same CSS selector as is found in any jQuery UI theme. The particular property we've just changed alters the space between the accordion sections. Since we're overriding the default theme value, it's important to include our CSS files after the default theme file. This allows us to override the default theme instead of the default theme overriding our modifications.

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jQuery UI Cookbook
Published in: Jul 2013 Publisher: Packt ISBN-13: 9781782162186
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