jQuery UI Features

jQuery UI provides various features for creating highly interactive web applications. Some of the important features of jQuery are:

  • Open-source.
  • Free to use.
  • Facilitates a powerful theme mechanism.
  • Stable.
  • Maintenance-friendly.
  • Facilitates extensive browser support.
  • Helpful documentation.

jQuery UI Categorization:

The jQueryUI can be categorized into four groups.

  1. Interactions
  2. Widgets
  3. Effects
  4. Utilities

Interactions:

To interact with the DOM elements, a set of plug-ins are used, also known as interactions. The most popular interactions are listed below:

  • Draggable
  • Droppable
  • Resizable
  • Selectable
  • Sortable

Widgets:

To create user interface elements such as date picker, progress bar, etc., a set of plug-ins are used, also known as Widgets. The most popular widgets are listed below:

  • Accordion
  • Autocomplete
  • Dialog
  • Button
  • Date Picker
  • Menu
  • Progress Bar
  • Tabs
  • Tooltip
  • Slider
  • Spinner

Effects:

A full suite of custom animation and transition for DOM elements is what the internal jQuery effects facilitate. The most popular effects are listed below:

  • Hide
  • Show
  • Add Class
  • Remove Class
  • Switch Class
  • Toggle Class
  • Color Animation
  • Effect
  • Toggle

Utilities:

The jQuery library internally uses certain modular tools, also known as Utilities.

Position:

As per the alignment or position of the other element we can set the position of the desired element.