jquery ui resizable custom handle error

Question

Im trying to get a custom handle work with jquery ui resizable widget, but when I use the handles option to pass in a jquery reference to another element, it fails. From what Iv

Answer 1

I found a workaround.

By setting the handles option to null, and setting the classes myself, I got my custom handle to work. This required some investigation in the jquery ui code to figure out.

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$('.layer').resizable({
    handles: null
});
​

http://jsfiddle.net/MatteS75/3dwVp/7/

However, I do think this is a jquery ui bug, releated to this question: overriding a jquery ui widget string option with an object