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JQuery UI

JavaScript library

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Source updated May 25, 2026

jQuery UI is a collection of GUI widgets, animated visual effects, and themes implemented with jQuery (a JavaScript library), Cascading Style Sheets, and HTML.

Both jQuery and jQuery UI are free and open-source software distributed by the jQuery Foundation under the MIT License; jQuery UI was first published in September 2007.

As of October 7, 2021 jQuery UI is in maintenance mode, with no new features being planned.

01Features

Interactions such as draggable/droppable and sortable are supported. jQuery UI comes with fully themeable widgets using a consolidated, coordinated theme mechanism, such as Autocomplete, Datepicker, ProgressBar, Sliders, and more. Effects include color animations and class toggling.

02Example

// Make the element with id "draggable" draggable $(function () { $("#draggable").draggable(); }); <div id="draggable"> <p>Drag me around</p> </div>

This makes the div with the ID "draggable" draggable by the user's mouse.

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