jQuery UI Slider

Overview

The jQuery UI Slider plugin makes selected elements into sliders. There are various options such as multiple handles, and ranges. The handle can be moved with the mouse or the arrow keys.

All callbacks receive two arguments: The original browser event and a prepared ui object, view below for a documentation of this object (if you name your second argument 'ui'):

  • ui.handle: DOMElement - the current focused handle
  • ui.value: Integer - the current handle's value

Dependencies

  • UI Core

Example

A simple jQuery UI Slider.

$("#slider").slider();

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link type="text/css" href="http://jqueryui.com/latest/themes/base/ui.all.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/ui.core.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://jqueryui.com/latest/ui/ui.slider.js"></script>
  <style type="text/css">
    #slider { margin: 10px; }
  </style>
  <script type="text/javascript">
  $(document).ready(function(){
    $("#slider").slider();
  });
  </script>
</head>
<body style="font-size:62.5%;">
  
<div id="slider"></div>

</body>
</html>

Options

Events

Methods

Theming

The jQuery UI Slider plugin uses the jQuery UI CSS Framework to style its look and feel, including colors and background textures. We recommend using the ThemeRoller tool to create and download custom themes that are easy to build and maintain.

If a deeper level of customization is needed, there are widget-specific classes referenced within the ui.slider.css stylesheet that can be modified. These classes are highlighed in bold below.

Sample markup with jQuery UI CSS Framework classes

<div class="ui-slider ui-slider-horizontal ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all">
   <a style="left: 0%;" class="ui-slider-handle ui-state-default ui-corner-all" href="#"></a>
</div>

Note: This is a sample of markup generated by the slider plugin, not markup you should use to create a slider. The only markup needed for that is <div><div>.