jQuery UI is a collection of
GUI widget
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s, animated visual effects, and
themes implemented with
jQuery (a
JavaScript
JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. Ninety-nine percent of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior.
Web browsers have ...
library
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),
Cascading Style Sheets, and
HTML
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. Using the
Shodan
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search engine query term cpe:"cpe:/a:jquery/jquery_ui" we can determine that jQuery UI is used on approximately 800k web sites.
Pinterest
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,
PayPal
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,
IMDb
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,
HuffPost
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, and
Netflix
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are utilizing the library.
Both jQuery and jQuery UI are
free and open-source software
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distributed by the jQuery Foundation under the
MIT License
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Unl ...
; jQuery UI was first published in September 2007.
As of October 7, 2021 jQuery UI is in maintenance mode, with no new features being planned.
Features
As of the 1.11.4 release, interactions such as draggable/droppable and sortable are supported. jQueryUI comes with fully themeable widgets using a consolidated, coordinated theme mechanism,
such as Autocomplete, Datepicker, ProgressBar, Sliders, and more.
Effects include color animations, class toggling.
Example
// Make the element with id "draggable" draggable
$(function () );
This makes the div with the ID "draggable" draggable by the user's mouse.
See also
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JavaScript framework
A web framework (WF) or web application framework (WAF) is a software framework that is designed to support the development of web applications including web services, web resources, and web APIs. Web frameworks provide a standard way to build and ...
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JavaScript library
A JavaScript library is a library of pre-written JavaScript code that allows for easier development of JavaScript-based applications, especially for AJAX and other web-centric technologies. They can be included in a website by embedding it directl ...
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