jsTree onSelect event

Question

I\'ve been trying to get the text of a node that is selected in a jsTree. I am able to populate the tree and trigger the onSelect event, but I can\'t find out which node was cli

Answer 1

Update in 2018.

Thanks to @ProfK's comment, the API has changed in new version of jstree. In jstree v3.1.0 (or earlier), the API has changed to:

$("#treeContainer").on(
        "select_node.jstree", function(evt, data){
            //selected node object: data.node;
        }
);

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For jstree old version (before 2013).

You can get the selected node object and its text by:

$("#treeContainer").bind(
        "select_node.jstree", function(evt, data){
            //selected node object: data.inst.get_json()[0];
            //selected node text: data.inst.get_json()[0].data
        }
);