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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

Accordions to tabs, and back again


Both the accordion and the tabs widgets are containers. That is, their typical use inside the context of an application is to organize subcomponents. These subcomponents might be other widgets, or any other HTML element for that matter. So, both widgets fit the generic description of a container, that is, a widget with different sections. There are obviously subtleties to that description; for example, accordions don't support remote Ajax content. Also, the way users traverse the sections are quite different. Yet, they're essentially interchangeable. Why not introduce the ability to switch between the two widgets, especially during run time where the users can set their own preference and toggle between the two containers? It turns out that we can implement something like this. Let's look at how we would go about doing this. We need a bidirectional conversion between the two widgets. That way, the tabs widget can be transformed into an accordion widget...

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