Beginning JavaScript® and CSS Development with jQuery

Appendix L. Selectables

Method	Description	Return Value
Sortable Methods
selectable(options)	Turns the children of selected element(s) into selectable elements. Options can be specified by passing an object literal as the first argument using key, value pairs. For a complete list of options, see the "Selectable Options" section later in this Appendix.	jQuery
selectable('disable')	Disables selectable functionality on the selected element(s).	jQuery
selectable('enable')	Enables selectable functionality on the selected element(s).	jQuery
selectable('refresh')	Refreshes the position and size of each selected element.	jQuery
selectable('toggle')	Toggles selectability (between enabled and disabled).	jQuery
selectable('destroy')	Completely removes the selectable functionality.	jQuery

Selectable Options

Option	Description	Type
autoRefresh	This option determines whether to refresh (the cached) the position and size of each selectable element at the beginning of a select operation. If you have experienced performance degradation (as you would if you have lots of selectable elements), you might want to set this option to false and refresh positions manually, as needed. The default value is true.	Boolean
filter	The matching child elements will be made into selectable elements. The default value is * (all children elements).	Selector
selected	This function is executed at the end of a select operation (when the mouse button has been released), on each element added to the selection. Selected elements are available in the ui ...