jQWidgets jqxDropDownButton autoOpen Property

Last Updated : 29 Sep, 2021

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxDropDownButton is used to illustrate a jQuery widget that contains a number of selectable as well as expandable items displayed in the dropdown button.

The autoOpen property is used to set or get if the displayed dropdown button is automatically opened whenever the mouse cursor is touched over the shown widget. It is of type Boolean and its default value is false.

Syntax:

To set the autoOpen property.

$("Selector").jqxDropDownButton({ autoOpen: true });

To get the autoOpen property.

var autoOpen = $('Selector').jqxDropDownButton('autoOpen');

Linked Files: Download jQWidgets from the link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqx-all.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js”></script>

Example: The below example illustrates the jqxDropDownButton autoOpen property in jQWidgets.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  <head> 
    <link
      rel="stylesheet"
      href="jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css"
      type="text/css"
    /> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqx-all.js"></script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
        src="jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"></script> 
  </head> 
  
  <body> 
    <center> 
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      <h3>jQWidgets jqxDropDownButton autoOpen property</h3> 
      <br /> 
      <div style="float: center" id="jqxDdB"> 
        <div id="jqxT"> 
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        </div> 
      </div> 
    </center> 
  
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
      $(document).ready(function () { 
        $("#jqxDdB").jqxDropDownButton({ 
          height: "25px", 
          width: "70px", 
          autoOpen: true, 
        }); 
  
        $("#jqxT").jqxTree({}); 
        $("#jqxDdB").jqxDropDownButton("setContent", "Select"); 
      }); 
    </script> 
  </body> 
</html> 