Can't bind to prototypes in _renderItem

[spjonez]

In the original plugin a 'format' function was passed during init to style items. Now it's a global widget call to create a new method. This presents a problem when you are writing function prototypes and do not have (or want) to use the global name to scope callbacks.

Ex: format: function( aItem ) {

return self.textSelectFormatting( aItem );

}

'self' is a reference to the objects 'this' before it has been instantiated. In the original textSelectFormatting would return markup and I could bind a click event to the new markup using the correct scope.

Is this possible with the new design? Or am I stuck binding an event to another object that I can trigger and pass the item that was clicked on to get my object reference?

[spjonez]

You can close/delete this, using $( selector ).data( 'uiSelectmenu' )._renderItem = function( aUl, aItem ) seems to work.

[tj.vantoll]

Replying to spjonez:

You can close/delete this, using $( selector ).data( 'uiSelectmenu' )._renderItem = function( aUl, aItem ) seems to work.

fyi you can use $( selector ).selectmenu( "instance" )._renderItem as of 1.11. See also the approach I used in #10142.

I created an issue to document selectmenu's extension points, because we missed those: ​https://github.com/jquery/api.jqueryui.com/issues/211. For now you can look at autocomplete method of the same name which is documented (​http://api.jqueryui.com/autocomplete/#method-_renderItem), and works the same way.