How can I trigger a change event on a jQuery UI slider?
I thought it would be
$('#slider').trigger('slidechange');
but that does nothing.
Full example script follows:
<link href="http://jqueryui.com/latest/themes/base/ui.all.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/ui.core.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/ui.slider.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<body>
<div id="slider"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$().ready(function()
{
$('#slider').slider({change: function() { alert(0); }});
// These don't work
$('#slider').trigger('change');
$('#slider').trigger('slidechange');
});
</script>
I would expect this to alert "0" when the page loads
I know this is way past the post date, but I wanted to post to provide this solution to anyone that stumbles upon this post.
You can accomplish event triggering by doing something along the lines of:
Unfortunately you cannot define the functions as options within the init object, however, I think it ends up looking cleaner and is more straight forward and correct than the other answer using the call method (i.e. it does use the event system).
And yes, the callbacks you define here will be called on normal operation (changing the position of the slider in this case) as it normally would. Just make sure you use the correct event type names from the UI documentation.
If you want to add multiple events at once, remember you can provide an object to bind using the event names as keys:
This is noted in the documentation, although, it is not very clear. Took me developing a couple plugins on my own to really understand the UI event system.
Enjoy
Wanted to add a comment on Joey Yore's answer -
I think it's better the other way round
Otherwise some events (namely, 'slidecreate') will be ignored
This maybe resurrecting an old thread, but was just having a similar experience. The solution that I came up with (because the thought of calling
slider(...)
multiple times was not appealing):With
$slider
being bound to the$(selector).slider(...)
initialization.A good approach is simply to change the value of the slider. The slider's own change method should then respond to the change of value. For instance:
I Used both slidechanged and slide, slide triggers when drag the point, slidechanged triggers after release the mouse button (just like click event)