jQuery UI Slider (setting programmatically)

Question

I\'d like to modify the sliders on-the-fly. I tried to do so by using

$(\"#slider\").slider(\"option\", \"values\", [50,80]);

This call wil

Answer 1

Mal's answer was the only one that worked for me (maybe jqueryUI has changed), here is a variant for dealing with a range:

$( "#slider-range" ).slider('values',0,lowerValue);
$( "#slider-range" ).slider('values',1,upperValue);
$( "#slider-range" ).slider("refresh");