jQuery UI

JQuery UI
Developer(s)	Paul Bakaus; Kris Borchers; Scott González; Mike Sherov; Adam Sontag; Jörn Zaefferer;
Stable release	1.11.4 / 11 March 2015
Preview release	1.10 beta / 13 December 2012
Repository	github.com/jquery/jquery-ui ;
Written in	JavaScript
Type	Plug-in
License	MIT License
Website	jqueryui.com

jQuery UI is a collection of GUI widgets, animated visual effects, and themes implemented with jQuery (a JavaScript library), Cascading Style Sheets, and HTML.^[5] According to JavaScript analytics service, Libscore, jQuery UI is used on over 176,000 websites, making it the second most popular JavaScript library on the Web.^[6] Notable users include Pinterest, PayPal, IMDB, Huffington Post, and Netflix.^[7]

Both jQuery and jQuery UI are free and open-source software distributed by the jQuery Foundation under the MIT License; jQuery UI was first published in September 2007.^[4]^[8]

Features

As of the 1.9.0 and 2.0.3 release:^[9]

Draggable, Droppable, Resizable, Selectable, Sortable

All of jQuery UI's widgets are fully themeable using a consolidated, coordinated theme mechanism.^[10]

Accordion – Accordion containers
Autocomplete – Auto-complete boxes based on what the user types
Button – Enhanced button appearance, turn radio buttons and checkboxes into pushbuttons
Datepicker – Advanced date-picker
Dialog – Show dialog boxes on top of other content, easily and robustly
Menu – Show a Menu
Progressbar – Progress bars, both animated and not
Slider – Fully customizable sliders^[11]
Spinner – Show a Number Spinner
Tabs – Tabbed user interface handling, with both inline and demand-loaded content
Tooltip – Show a Tooltip

Color Animation – Animate the transition from one color to another
Toggle Class, Add Class, Remove Class, Switch Class – Animate the transition from one set of styles to another
Effect – A variety of effects (appear, slide-down, explode, fade-in, etc.)
Toggle – Toggle an effect on and off
Hide, Show - Using the effects above

Position – Set an element's position relative to another element's position (alignment)

<script type="text/javascript">
	// Make #draggable draggable
	$(function () {
		$("#draggable").draggable();
	});
</script>

<div id="draggable" class="ui-widget-content">
  <p>Drag me around</p>
</div>

This makes the div with the ID "draggable" draggable by the user's mouse.

<script type="text/javascript">
	// change css of an element
	$(function () {
		$("#demo").css('color','#069');
	});
</script>

<div id="demo">
  Some text
</div>

This changes the css of the div with the ID "demo".

jQuery UI was launched on September 17, 2007.^[8]

Release date^[12]	Version number	jQuery Dependency	Additional notes
			Initial release^[8]
Jun 8, 2008	1.5
Apr 16, 2009	1.6	1.2.6	Compatibility release for jQuery 1.2.6.
Mar 3, 2009	1.7	1.3.2+
Mar 18, 2010	1.8	1.3.2+
Jan 19, 2011	1.8.9	1.3.2+
Feb 22, 2011	1.8.10	1.3.2+
Mar 15, 2011	1.8.11	1.3.2+
Apr 13, 2011	1.8.12	1.3.2+
May 12, 2011	1.8.13	1.3.2+
Jun 17, 2011	1.8.14	1.3.2+
Aug 1, 2011	1.8.15	1.3.2+
Aug 15, 2011	1.8.16	1.3.2+
Jan 10, 2012	1.8.17	1.3.2+
Feb 20, 2012	1.8.18	1.3.2+
Apr 16, 2012	1.8.19	1.3.2+
Apr 30, 2012	1.8.20	1.3.2+
Jun 5, 2012	1.8.21	1.3.2+
Jul 24, 2012	1.8.22	1.3.2+
Aug 15, 2012	1.8.23	1.3.2+
Sep 28, 2012	1.8.24	1.3.2+
Oct 8, 2012	1.9.0	1.6+
Oct 25, 2012	1.9.1	1.6+
Nov 23, 2012	1.9.2	1.6+
Jan 17, 2013	1.10.0	1.6+	Dropped support for IE6^[13]
Feb 15, 2013	1.10.1	1.6+
Mar 14, 2013	1.10.2	1.6+
May 3, 2013	1.10.3	1.6+
Jan 17, 2014	1.10.4	1.6+
Apr 25, 2014	1.11.0-beta.1	1.6+	Dropped support for IE7^[14]
May 23, 2014	1.11.0-beta.2	1.6+
Jun 26, 2014	1.11.0	1.6+
Aug 13, 2014	1.11.1	1.6+
Oct 16, 2014	1.11.2	1.6+
Feb 12, 2015	1.11.3	1.6+

^ "The jQuery Team". jQuery.com. The jQuery Foundation. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
^ González, Scott (11 March 2015). "jQuery UI 1.11.3". jqueryui.com.
^ Zaefferer, Jörn (13 December 2012). "jQuery UI 1.10.4". jqueryui.com.
^ ^a ^b "License". jQuery.com. The jQuery Foundation. Retrieved 12 June 2014.
^ Sarrion, Eric (2012). jQuery UI. Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media. pp. 1–4. ISBN 9781449316990. OCLC 768796881.
^ http://libscore.com/#libs
^ http://libscore.com/#$.ui
^ ^a ^b ^c John Resig (17 September 2007). "jQuery UI: Interactions and plug-ins". jQuery blog. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
^ "jQuery UI Demos". jQuery UI. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
^ "jQuery UI: ThemeRoller". jQuery UI. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
^ "Jquery UI Examples – Creating a Page Content Slider". Innovative PHP. 21 July 2011. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
^ "jQuery UI - Documentation: UIChangelog". Retrieved April 2, 2012.
^ jQuery UI 1.10.0, retrieved on Feb 15, 2013
^ jQuery UI 1.11.0-beta.1, retrieved on May 1, 2014