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Jitendra Vyas
Jitendra Vyas

Reputation: 152637

What is the difference between jquery and jquery UI?

What is the difference between jQuery and jQuery UI? Are they both different frameworks? Is jQuery library needed to work jquery UI or both works standalone? what is difference between any jQuery tab plugin and jQuery UI Tab? which is better to use?

Upvotes: 55

Views: 40352

Answers (4)

Nosredna
Nosredna

Reputation: 86196

jQuery is the core library. jQueryUI is built on top of it. If you use jQueryUI, you must also include jQuery.

jQuery Tabs preceded jQueryUI library. jQueryUI Tabs is based on jQuery Tabs. The current version of jQuery Tabs is Tabs 3. If I recall correctly (I vaguely remember looking through the source code about a year ago), Tabs 3 is very similar to what's in jQueryUI. The jQueryUI version, of course, respects the Themeroller themes.

I used jQueryUI in one project. It has some nice features, but there are few widgets and it seems to be advancing at a glacial pace (seems like the same six widgets have been there for over a year). Maybe it'll get a second wind. If I recall, one of the things that bothered me is that in many of the widgets, there was no visible difference between the hover state and the click state.

So I would not recommend jQueryUI at this time for its widgets. You may want it for the effects and the draggable/dropable interactions handling.

The widgets in Google's Closure library and the widgets in ExtJS seem more useful, in my opinion.

Upvotes: 37

Trevor Allred
Trevor Allred

Reputation: 978

You'll also discover that you can't live without jQuery. It's a crucial piece to almost any web application. And since it's footprint is so small you can get away with including on most if not all pages.

jQuery UI however is heavier with css and images. It can also be difficult to get the style to work with existing applications. I find myself using jQuery UI components some of the time and jQuery nearly all the time.

Upvotes: 0

eKek0
eKek0

Reputation: 23289

Just browse to the jQuery UI site and read:

jQuery UI provides abstractions for low-level interaction and animation, advanced effects and high-level, themeable widgets, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.

Upvotes: 6

miku
miku

Reputation: 188014

  • jQuery UI is built on top of jQuery. It offers cool user interface enhancements.

  • @2nd question > Use what you like, end-user- and developer-interface-wise.

Upvotes: 2

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