jQuery UI – Adding a DatePicker to Make Calendar/Date Selector

Datepicker is a part of jQueryUI which allows you to include a calendar. This does two things: Makes it easier for the end user to pick a date Makes for more consistent and correctly formatted dates, so it will be easier to work with form processors that need to handle those dates. You might wonder…

jQuery UI – Creating and Apllying a Theme to Your Page

The way that jQueryUI controls the way the elements look is through effective use of CSS. Choosing and using a theme is an important part of working and installing jQueryUI into your website. If you inspect the controls that jQuery creates it actually creates several HTML tags with classes. These classes will control the styles…

jQuery Plugins

One of the things that makes jQuery so powerful is that it can be “easily” extended via a plugin. You have some experience with Plugins for Photoshop, or another application. But you’re probably wondering “how does this apply to something like jQuery, which is just software code?” Well, plugins are designed to extend the functionality…