jQuery UI theme
All jQuery UI plug-in allows developers to seamlessly integrate UI widgets to the look and feel of their sites or applications. Each widget is defined by CSS styles, and contains two style information: the standard jQuery UI CSS framework styles and specific plug-in style.
jQuery UI CSS framework provides a semantic representation of the class to indicate the role of a small component elements, such as title, content, or clickable area. These are consistent in all the small parts, and a clickable tab (tab), accordion (accordion) or button (Button) have the same ui-state-default , class, to show that they are clickable of. When the user hovers at the top of these elements, the class becomes ui-state-hover , then these elements become elected in ui-state-active . The class of consistency makes the appearance consistent performance of all of the elements or components having a similar role in the interaction state.
CSS style frame is encapsulated in a separate file, named ui.theme.css . This file through ThemeRoller application to modify. Frame style contains only affect the appearance and feel of the property, as long as the colors, background images, icons and so on. So these are «safe» style, it will not affect the plug-in function. This separation means that developers can use in theme.css modify the color and image files to create a custom look and feel. Since the future of plug-ins or bug fixes will be available, and these can be used without modification by the theme.
Since the frame style cover only look and feel, so it needs to include specific plug-in style sheets, these style sheets include all extra widgets allow functional structure style rules, such as size, padding, margins, positioning, float. Each widget stylesheets themes/base folder, and with the plug-in name, such as «jquery.ui.accordion.css». These patterns must be carefully edited scripts because they provide a framework covering styles together.
We encourage all developers to create plug-in jQuery, jQuery UI CSS framework makes it easier for end users to use custom themes and plug-ins.
Theming
Here are three of the jQuery UI widget relating to the general procedure:
- Download ThemeRoller topics: first create a theme is to use ThemeRoller to generate and download a theme. This application will create a new ui.theme.css file and contains all the necessary background images and icons sprite images folder. This method is the first to create and maintain the theme of the way, but the options it provides limited ThemeRoller custom.
- Modify the CSS file: In order to further the look and feel of the controls, you can choose from the default theme (Smoothness) begins, or from one topic generated by the ThemeRoller Start, and then adjust ui.theme.css file, a separate plug-in or any stylesheet. For example, you can easily adjust the angle of the radius of all the buttons is different from the values of other UI components, or use a custom icon to change the path wizard. Styles range through a little bit, you can even use more than one theme in a UI. For easier maintenance, the proposed change only ui.theme.css files and images.
- Re-write custom CSS: To maximize control the look and feel, you can start writing again on each widget and CSS, without the use of plug-in framework classes or a specific stylesheet. If you want to look and feel can be achieved by modifying the CSS or using highly customized tags, then you can use this method. This approach requires deep expertise in CSS terms, and require manual updates for a future plug-ins.
Use ThemeRoller, jQuery UI CSS framework, as well as design custom theme
ThemeRoller
ThemeRoller allows you to design custom jQuery UI themes for tight integration in your projects. To create a custom theme, select the Roll your own tab and tweak the settings. As you work, the UI components to the right will update to reflect your design and you can download your theme whenever you like.
If you’d like to use a pre-designed theme, select the Theme Gallery tab and choose from one of the themes in the gallery. You can choose to download or customize any theme from there. To save a theme for later, simply bookmark or copy the URL.
Plugin Developers
jQuery UI is driven by a powerful custom CSS framework. The framework is designed to be used not only for our own jQuery UI components, but for custom UI widget development as well! Visit the jQuery UI documentation to learn more about the new jQuery UI CSS Framework.
Accordion
First
Second
Third
Autocomplete
Button
Checkboxradio
Controlgroup
Tabs
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Dialog
Overlay and Shadow Classes
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Theming jQuery UI
All jQuery UI plugins are designed to allow a developer to seamlessly integrate UI widgets into the look and feel of their site or application. Each plugin is styled with CSS and contains two layers of style information: standard jQuery UI CSS Framework styles and plugin-specific styles.
The jQuery UI CSS Framework provides semantic presentation classes to indicate the role of an element within a widget such as a header, content area, or clickable region. These are applied consistently across all widgets so a clickable tab, accordion, or button will all have the same ui-state-default class applied to indicate that it is clickable. When a user mouses over one of these elements, this class is changed to ui-state-hover , then ui-state-active when selected. This level of class consistency makes it easy to ensure that all elements with a similar role or interaction state will look the same across all widgets.
The CSS Framework styles are encapsulated in a single file called theme.css and this is the file modified by the ThemeRoller application. Framework styles only include attributes that affect the look and feel (primarily color, background images, and icons) so these are «safe» styles that will not affect functionality of individual plugins. This separation means that a developer can create a custom look and feel by modifying the colors and images in the theme.css file and know that as future plugins or bug fixes become available, these should work with the theme without modification.
Since the framework styles only cover look and feel, plugin specific stylesheets are separated. These contain all the additional structural style rules required to make the widget functional, such as dimensions, padding, margins, positioning, and floats. When downloading jQuery UI, these can be found in jquery-ui.structure.css .
We encourage all developers creating jQuery plugins to leverage the jQuery UI CSS Framework because it will make it much easier for end users to theme and use your plugin.
link Getting started
There are three general approaches to theming jQuery UI plugins:
- Download a ThemeRoller theme: The easiest way to build a theme is to use ThemeRoller to generate and download a theme. This app will create a new jquery-ui.theme.css file and an images directory containing all necessary background images and icon sprites which can simply be dropped into your project. This approach will be the easiest to create and maintain but limits customization to the options provided in ThemeRoller.
- Modify the CSS files: To get a bit more control over the look and feel, you may choose to start with the default theme (Smoothness) or a ThemeRoller-generated theme and then adjust the jquery-ui.theme.css file or any of the individual plugin stylesheets. For example, you could easily tweak the corner radius for all buttons to be different than the rest of the UI components or change the path for the icon sprite to use a custom set. With a bit of style scoping, you can even use multiple themes together in a single UI. To keep maintenance simple, restricting changes to just the jquery-ui.theme.css file and images is recommended.
- Write completely custom CSS: For the greatest amount of control, the CSS for each plugin can be written from scratch without using the framework classes or plugin-specific stylesheet. This may be necessary if the desired look and feel can’t be achieved by modifying the CSS or if highly customized markup is used. This approach requires deep expertise in CSS and will require manual updates for future plugins.