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Trigger a jQuery UI slider event

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

Solution

  • Try

    $slider = $('#slider');
$slider.slider('option', 'change').call($slider);

    Not ideal but gets you working!

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