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Asked: 2026-06-03T07:06:54+00:00

I’m creating a toggle switch with jquery but still don’t understand how to trigger

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I’m creating a toggle switch with jquery but still don’t understand how to trigger anything with this toggle. So I have this:

<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.1.0/jquery.mobile-1.1.0.min.css" />
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.1.0/jquery.mobile-1.1.0.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div data-role="page" id="page1">
<div data-role="content">
<div data-role="fieldcontain">
<?php
for($i=0;$i<$num_cameras;$i++)
{
?>

<select name="<?php echo "toggleswitch".$i; ?>" id="<?php echo "toggleswitch".$i; ?>" data-theme="" data-role="slider">
    <option value="off">Off</option>
    <option value="on">On</option>
</select>
<label for="<?php echo "toggleswitch".$i; ?>">
<?php echo $cameras[$i]["camera_name"]; ?> 
</label>
<?php
}
?>                              

</div>
</div>
</div>  

<?php
}
}
?>
</body>

I’m getting the list of cameras from the server so I don’t know if that complicates things. What I’d like to do is start playing a video when someone clicks the toggle to “On”. I’m not understanding what I need to do from the jquery docs on the flip toggle switch.

The output looks like this:

<select name="toggleswitch0" id="toggleswitch0" data-theme="" data-role="slider">
<option value="off">Off</option>
<option value="on">On</option>
</select>
<label for="toggleswitch0">Default camera</label>

                                               <select name="toggleswitch1" id="toggleswitch1" data-theme="" data-role="slider">
<option value="off">Off </option>
<option value="on">On</option>
</select>
<label for="toggleswitch1">test</label>

Essentially creates a number of toggle switches based on how many cameras I find, in this case 2. I just really don’t know where to go from here to active these toggles to do something (in my case play a video).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try using the .change() method along with .val();

    $(document).on('pageinit',function(){
    $('#toggleswitch0').change(function(){ // shortcut for .bind('change')
        if($(this).val() == 'on'){
            $('video')[0].play();
        } else {
            $('video')[0].pause();
        }
    });        
});​​​​​

    Here is an example http://jsfiddle.net/codaniel/STLvS/1/

    Note: .on() will only work with jQuery 1.7 + use bind or delegate instead if you have earlier version of jQuery.

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