Trigger a jQuery UI slider event

Question

How can I trigger a change event on a jQuery UI slider?

I thought it would be

$(\'#slider\').trigger(\'slidechange\');

but that do

Answer 1

A good approach is simply to change the value of the slider. The slider's own change method should then respond to the change of value. For instance:

var newValue=5;
$('#slider').slider("value", newValue);