Dynamically changing accordion's event handler doesn't actually change the behaviour

[jjross]

I'm trying to change the accordion's event handler on the fly but it doesn't appear to be working.

Business case is as follows:

I have a list of droppable items that are all under an accordion. When a user drags the draggable item towards the accordion I would like to change the accordion's event handler from "click" to "mouseover" so that they can hover over a panel and have it automatically expand. This will let them drop the item under any panel.

 test case

In this page you can click the "Change event" text to change the accordion's event from (the default) "click" to "mouseover". However, the accordion itself doesn't start to respond to a mouseover. If you click the "Read event" you'll see that the "Display event status here" line changes to "mouseover". This proves that the value has been changed, however, the accordion's behaviour remains the same.

The above is for jquery 1.8.6 however I have also tested on 1.8.7 and the behaviour remains the same.

[jjross]

Here is a link to a test case:

 http://jsfiddle.net/ubMrz/

I'm sorry, I just noticed the note to use jsFiddle.

[scott.gonzalez]

Thanks for creating the jsFiddle test case, I've removed the inline code from the description.

[jjross]

No worries. Should've noticed before.

[Scott González]

Accordion: Handle changing the event option. Fixes #6740 - Dynamically changing accordion's event handler doesn't actually change the behaviour.

Changeset: f70f01af9ea1d1d191b77fab6dadbbe421be43a8

[scott.gonzalez]

#8336 is a duplicate of this ticket.