jQuery UI Slider

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'):

The slider widget will create handle elements with the class 'ui-slider-handle' on initialization. You can specify custom handle elements by creating and appending the elements and adding the 'ui-slider-handle' class before init. It will only create the number of handles needed to match the length of value/values. For example, if you specify 'values: [1, 5, 18]' and create one custom handle, the plugin will create the other two.

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

Dependencies

UI Core
UI Widget
UI Mouse

A simple jQuery UI Slider.

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

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
  <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
    <style type="text/css">
    #slider { margin: 10px; }
  </style>
  <script>
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#slider").slider();
  });
  </script>
</head>
<body style="font-size:62.5%;">
  
<div id="slider"></div>

</body>
</html>

disabled

Type:

Boolean

Default:

false

Disables (true) or enables (false) the slider. Can be set when initialising (first creating) the slider.
Code examples
Initialize a slider with the disabled option specified.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({ disabled: true });
```
Get or set the disabled option, after init.
```
//getter
var disabled = $( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "disabled" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "disabled", true );
```
animate

Type:

Boolean, String, Number

Default:

false

Whether to slide handle smoothly when user click outside handle on the bar. Will also accept a string representing one of the three predefined speeds ("slow", "normal", or "fast") or the number of milliseconds to run the animation (e.g. 1000).
Code examples
Initialize a slider with the animate option specified.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({ animate: true });
```
Get or set the animate option, after init.
```
//getter
var animate = $( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "animate" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "animate", true );
```

max

Type:: Number
Default:: 100

The maximum value of the slider.

Code examples

Initialize a slider with the max option specified.

$( ".selector" ).slider({ max: 7 });

Get or set the max option, after init.

//getter
var max = $( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "max" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "max", 7 );

min

Type:: Number
Default:: 0

The minimum value of the slider.

Code examples

Initialize a slider with the min option specified.

$( ".selector" ).slider({ min: -7 });

Get or set the min option, after init.

//getter
var min = $( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "min" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "min", -7 );

orientation

Type:

String

Default:

'horizontal'

This option determines whether the slider has the min at the left, the max at the right or the min at the bottom, the max at the top. Possible values: 'horizontal', 'vertical'.
Code examples
Initialize a slider with the orientation option specified.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({ orientation: 'vertical' });
```
Get or set the orientation option, after init.
```
//getter
var orientation = $( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "orientation" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "orientation", 'vertical' );
```
range

Type:

Boolean, String

Default:

false

If set to true, the slider will detect if you have two handles and create a stylable range element between these two. Two other possible values are 'min' and 'max'. A min range goes from the slider min to one handle. A max range goes from one handle to the slider max.
Code examples
Initialize a slider with the range option specified.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({ range: 'min' });
```
Get or set the range option, after init.
```
//getter
var range = $( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "range" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "range", 'min' );
```
step

Type:

Number

Default:

1

Determines the size or amount of each interval or step the slider takes between min and max. The full specified value range of the slider (max - min) needs to be evenly divisible by the step.
Code examples
Initialize a slider with the step option specified.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({ step: 5 });
```
Get or set the step option, after init.
```
//getter
var step = $( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "step" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "step", 5 );
```
value

Type:

Number

Default:

0

Determines the value of the slider, if there's only one handle. If there is more than one handle, determines the value of the first handle.
Code examples
Initialize a slider with the value option specified.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({ value: 37 });
```
Get or set the value option, after init.
```
//getter
var value = $( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "value" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "value", 37 );
```
values

Type:

Array

Default:

null

This option can be used to specify multiple handles. If range is set to true, the length of 'values' should be 2.
Code examples
Initialize a slider with the values option specified.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({ values: [1,5,9] });
```
Get or set the values option, after init.
```
//getter
var values = $( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "values" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "values", [1,5,9] );
```

create

Type:

slidecreate

This event is triggered when slider is created.
Code examples
Supply a callback function to handle the create event as an init option.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({
   create: function(event, ui) { ... }
});
```
Bind to the create event by type: slidecreate.
```
$( ".selector" ).bind( "slidecreate", function(event, ui) {
  ...
});
```
start

Type:

slidestart

This event is triggered when the user starts sliding.
Code examples
Supply a callback function to handle the start event as an init option.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({
   start: function(event, ui) { ... }
});
```
Bind to the start event by type: slidestart.
```
$( ".selector" ).bind( "slidestart", function(event, ui) {
  ...
});
```
slide

Type:

slide

This event is triggered on every mouse move during slide. Use ui.value (single-handled sliders) to obtain the value of the current handle, $(..).slider('value', index) to get another handles' value.
Return false in order to prevent a slide, based on ui.value.
Code examples
Supply a callback function to handle the slide event as an init option.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({
   slide: function(event, ui) { ... }
});
```
Bind to the slide event by type: slide.
```
$( ".selector" ).bind( "slide", function(event, ui) {
  ...
});
```
change

Type:

slidechange

This event is triggered on slide stop, or if the value is changed programmatically (by the value method). Takes arguments event and ui. Use event.orginalEvent to detect whether the value changed by mouse, keyboard, or programmatically. Use ui.value (single-handled sliders) to obtain the value of the current handle, $(this).slider('values', index) to get another handle's value.
Code examples
Supply a callback function to handle the change event as an init option.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({
   change: function(event, ui) { ... }
});
```
Bind to the change event by type: slidechange.
```
$( ".selector" ).bind( "slidechange", function(event, ui) {
  ...
});
```
stop

Type:

slidestop

This event is triggered when the user stops sliding.
Code examples
Supply a callback function to handle the stop event as an init option.
```
$( ".selector" ).slider({
   stop: function(event, ui) { ... }
});
```
Bind to the stop event by type: slidestop.
```
$( ".selector" ).bind( "slidestop", function(event, ui) {
  ...
});
```

destroy

Signature:

.slider( "destroy" )

Remove the slider functionality completely. This will return the element back to its pre-init state.
disable

Signature:

.slider( "disable" )

Disable the slider.
enable

Signature:

.slider( "enable" )

Enable the slider.
option

Signature:

.slider( "option" , optionName , [value] )

Get or set any slider option. If no value is specified, will act as a getter.
option

Signature:

.slider( "option" , options )

Set multiple slider options at once by providing an options object.
widget

Signature:

.slider( "widget" )

Returns the .ui-slider element.
value

Signature:

.slider( "value" , [value] )

Gets or sets the value of the slider. For single handle sliders.
values

Signature:

.slider( "values" , index , [value] )

Gets or sets the values of the slider. For multiple handle or range sliders.

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 jquery.ui.slider.css stylesheet that can be modified. These classes are highlighed in bold below.

Sample markup with jQuery UI CSS Framework classes

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>.

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Sample markup with jQuery UI CSS Framework classes