#9362 closed feature (wontfix)

Opened June 06, 2013 12:57AM UTC

Closed June 06, 2013 12:22PM UTC

Last modified June 06, 2013 02:38PM UTC

Enable widgets to automatically extract their own options from an attribute on the element.

Reported by: jsm11482 Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: none
Component: ui.widget Version: 1.10.3
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

I currently define options for my widgets in an attribute on the element. But I think it would make for a simple and useful addition to the main jQuery UI library. To best understand what I mean, please see this example.

This would allow us to easily define the options for our widgets inline with the actual widget (instead of in a script somewhere). It's very helpful for dynamically generated pages with many widgets with different configurations.

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Changed June 06, 2013 12:22PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:1

component: ui.core → ui.widget
resolution: → wontfix
status: new → closed

You can already build whatever logic you want with _getCreateOptions(). We're not going to build this into jQuery UI.

Changed June 06, 2013 12:52PM UTC by jsm11482 comment:2

I was not aware of that function , I'll take a look. Thanks.

Changed June 06, 2013 02:19PM UTC by jsm11482 comment:3

Can you elaborate regarding how I could use apply a specific function to the _getCreateOptions() for all widgets? Is there a way to do this?

Changed June 06, 2013 02:37PM UTC by scottgonzalez comment:4

Change $.widget._getCreateOptions(). Please ask for help on IRC, the forums, or Stack Overflow.

Changed June 06, 2013 02:38PM UTC by jsm11482 comment:5

Thank you, sorry for asking that here, I realize it's not the right place. I'm done. :)