Today we are happy to announce the availability of the jQuery UI extension for WebSharper formlets. This brings a number of new formlet primitives to the standard WebSharper formlet library that are rendered using jQuery UI controls. These include tabs, sliders, drag and drop panels, orderable lists, among others.

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.

To see how easily you can combine jQuery UI-based formlets to create impressive UIs, check out the new Formlets for jQuery UI demo - and see what 100 lines of F# code can give you. As usual, you can grab the extension installer from the WebSharper extensions page, or download directly from WebSharper Manager:

This brings the number of available WebSharper extensions to 13, those in green being freely available with your WebSharper developer license. Enjoy!