jQuery Plugins and jQuery UI Widget Factory Introduction

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The Widget Factory (TWF) is the underlying abstraction for all jQuery UI widgets and interactions (except “datepicker”, circa the recording). Example: Building a colorbox widget using TWF where defaults are specified in an “options” property and “_create” serves as the constructor. Note: TWF depends only on jQuery, but doesn’t have any dependencies on other modules within jQuery UI. TWF merges options with defaults, creates a widget instance for each selected element and allows you to ask for its state without a DOM query.

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