Now that jQueryUI 1.8 is out, I was browsing through the updates and came across the new Button widget, and in particular one of the demos with the SplitButton with a dropdown. This demo seems to suggest that the Button widget could be used to create a dropdown menu here.
As a matter of discussion, I was wondering what ways there are to go about creating a dropdown menu with this new Button widget.
Cheers.
You would have to drop a list below the button, in a manner similar to the demo provided here for autocomplete: http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/.
Essentially, you would replace the code in the button demo that displays the alert "could display a menu with a selected action" with code that does just that. This code can fire off one of the many jQuery Menu plugins out there, like this one.
<div class="demo">
<div>
<button id="rerun">Run last action</button>
<button id="select">Select an action</button>
</div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#rerun").button().click(function() {
alert("Running the last action");
})
.next()
.button({
text: false,
icons: {
primary: "ui-icon-triangle-1-s"
}
})
.click(function() {
// Code to display menu goes here. <<<<<<<<<<<<
})
.parent()
.buttonset();
});
You could also tell it to create the menu using the built-in button events:
//...
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#yourButtonsID").click(function(){
$("#yourDropDown").show();
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<button id="leftButtonSection">Do Something</button>
<button id="yourButtonsID">Open Menu</button>
<div id="yourDropDown">
<ul>
<li>Option One</li>
<li>Option Two</li>
</body>