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.
- Interactions
- Widgets
- Effects
- 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.