Detecting select slider change event in jQuery Mobile

Question

What is a reliable way to detect change of a select slider in jQuery Mobile? I try to bind a handler to change event of the select control itself, but it fires on initial page display, and then fires multiple times on clicks, and sometimes even on hover (in desktop browser).

The minimal working example of this behaviour is posted here: http://jsfiddle.net/NPC42/mTjtt/3/

This is probably caused by jQuery Mobile adding more elements to style the select as the flip-toggle, but I can't find the recommended way to do it.

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

May not be the slickest solution but it works http://jsfiddle.net/mTjtt/4/

Answer 2

Live Example:

• http://jsfiddle.net/KCQ4Z/14/
• http://jsfiddle.net/phillpafford/KCQ4Z/70/ (using stopPropagation() )

JS:

$('#my-slider').change(function(event) {
    event.stopPropagation();
    var myswitch = $(this);
    var show     = myswitch[0].selectedIndex == 1 ? true:false;

    if(show) {            
        $('#show-me').fadeIn('slow');
        $('#first-me').fadeOut();
    } else {            
        $('#first-me').fadeIn('slow');
        $('#show-me').fadeOut();
    }
});

HTML:

<div data-role="page" id="home" class="type-home"> 
    <div data-role="content"> 
        <div class="content-primary"> 
            <p>The flip toggle switch is displayed like this:</p> 
            <div data-role="fieldcontain"> 
                <label for="slider">Flip switch:</label> 
                <select name="slider" id="my-slider" data-role="slider"> 
                    <option value="off">Off</option> 
                    <option value="on">On</option> 
                </select> 
            </div> 
            <div id="first-me">
                <p>

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                </p>  
            </div>
            <div id="show-me" class="hidden">
                <p>
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                </p>  
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

UPDATE:

I have raised an issue/bug with jQM here:

• https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/issues/2188

Answer 3

Use this code,

$( ".mySliders" ).slider({
    create: function (event, ui) {
        $(this).bind('change', function () {
            ...
            ...
        });
    }
});

!Do not put type="range" to your input tags , put type="text" instead.

Since you are calling slider function manually.