Need to know if a jQuery UI Widget has been applied to a DOM object

Question

I\'m using jQuery and have some interactions with a jQuery UI where I need to get options. However there\'s a possibility that the jQuery UI function has not been applied yet t

Answer 1

You can access the progress bar object on the element by doing:

$("#myid").data("progressbar")

So to use this:

var progressBar = $("#myid").data("progressbar");
if ( progressBar == null ) {
    // handle case when no progressbar is setup for my selector
} else {
    alert("The value is: " + progressBar.value());
}