jQuery UI Features

• jQueryUI facilitates you to make highly interactive web applications.
• It is open source and free to use.
• It provides a powerful theme mechanism.
• It is very stable and maintenance friendly.
• It provides an extensive browser support
• Good documentation

jQuery UI Categorization

We can categorize the jQueryUI into four groups.

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

1) Interactions: Interactions are the set of plug-ins which facilitates users to interact with DOM elements. These are the mostly used interactions:

• Draggable
• Droppable
• Resizable
• Selectable
• Sortable

2) Widgets: Widgets are the jQuery plug-ins which makes you able to create user interface elements like date picker, progress bar etc. These are the mostly used widgets:

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

3) Effects: The internal jQuery effects contain a full suite of custom animation and transition for DOM elements.

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

4) Utilities: Utilities are the modular tools, used by jQuery library internally.

• Position: It is used to set the position of the element according to the other element's alignment (position).