Changing the slider orientation

By default, the slider widget will render horizontally. It's easy for us to change the slider orientation to a vertical layout using the orientation option.

How to do it...

We'll use the following HTML to define our two widgets. The first slider will be vertical while the second uses the default horizontal layout:

<div class="slider-container">
    <div id="vslider"></div>
</div>

<div class="slider-container">
    <div id="hslider"></div>
</div>

Next, we'll use the following JavaScript code to instantiate the two widgets:

$(function() {

    $( "#vslider" ).slider({
        orientation: "vertical",
        range: "min",
        min: 1,
        max: 200,
        value: 128
    });

    $( "#hslider" ).slider({
        range: "min",
        min: 0,
        max: 200,
        value: 128
    });

});

If you look at the two sliders in your browser, you can see the contrast between the vertical layout and the default horizontal...