Accessing widget instance from outside widget

Question

This is a simple widget mock:

(function ($) {

    $.widget(\"ui.myDummyWidget\", {

        options: {
        },

        _create: function () {
        },         


        

Answer 1

You can also use the jQuery custom selector to find the widget elements before calling data on them to get the actual widget instance e.g.

$(this.element).find(":ui-myDummyWidget").each(function (index, domEle) {
    var widgetObject = $(this).data("myDummyWidget");
    widgetObject.hide();
    // this == domEle according to the jQuery docs
});

That code finds all of the instances of ui.myDummyWidget (note the change of period . to hyphen - ) that have been created and attached to another widget holder.