Jquery – How to refresh a jQuery UI Slider after setting min or max values

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I have a ui.slider and change it's min and max values on runtime. But these changes only get reflected in the view, when I set the values afterwards too (which causes it to fire events that are not needed). In my opinion, it should refresh the view after setting min and max too. Is there a simple workaround, seems like a refresh method is missing for the slider.

$("#something").slider({
    range: true,
    values: [25, 75],
    min: 0,
    max: 100
});
$("#something").slider("option", "min", 25); // left handle should be at the left end, but it doesn't move
$("#something").slider("option", "values", [25, 75]); // the left handle is now at the left end, but doing this triggers events

Edit This issue has been fixed in jQuery UI 1.9

Best Answer

I don't know whether this is a bug in the jQuery UI slider, but anyway, what you can do is change the current value (technically, setting the current value to the current value...) to force the view to be refreshed. Following the documentation, this would mean doing something like this :

$(function() { 
    var $slide = $("#something").slider({
        range: true,
        values: [25, 75],
        min: 0,
        max: 100
    });
    $slide.slider("option", "min", 25); // left handle should be at the left end, but it doesn't move
    $slide.slider("value", $slide.slider("value")); //force the view refresh, re-setting the current value
});

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