We'd love to help with this question over on the jQuery UI list, for the benefit of everyone there:
http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui Thanks. - Richard On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Aleem B <ale...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I created a widget and figured that it can only be called once per element: > > $.widget('ui.mywidget', { > _init: function() { > alert('hello'); > } > } > > $.widget("ui.mywidget", mywidget); > > > $("#foo").mywidget(); // alerts hello > $("#foo").mywidget(); // doesn't do anything > > > now I understand this is by design because _init acts like a static > constructor. however, I want to create a widget to add a panel to #foo > each time it's called so: > > $("#foo").addpanel(); > $("#foo").addpanel(); > > But that obvioulsy fails.What's the work around or what is a better > design? I don't want to do: > $("#foo").addpanel(); > $("#foo").addpanel("add"); > $("#foo").addpanel("add"); > > because that requires an extra () call followed by ("add"), ("add"). > > > > > > -- Aleem >
