Question

I have been dissecting the event and ui objects in firebug but it doesn’t seem to have anything I can use. Am I missing something? I suppose I can keep track of the value changes but that seems like it would be a kludge.

$(".selector").slider({
    slide: function(event, ui){
        // I need to tell if the slide is left-to-right or right-to-left here.
    }
}); 

Thanks!
Jason

Answer 1

If you want to get the direction (value decreases or increases) just use the start and slide event. Store the inital value in a variable when the start event is fired. After that just compare this stored value against the value the sliding event creates.

Just combine different events.

Before edit:

Use the documented getter

var orientation = $( ".selector" ).slider( "option", "orientation" );

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’.