jQuery UI consists of GUI widgets, visual effects, and themes implemented using jQuery, CSS, and HTML. jQuery UI is great for building UI interfaces for the webpages. jQueryUI provides us a slider control through slider widget. Slider helps us to get a certain value using a given range. In this article we will see how to set the orientation option in a slider. The orientation option is used to set the orientation of the slider.
Syntax:
$(".selector").slider(
{ orientation : 'horizontal'}
);Parameters: This option accepts one parameter as discussed below:
- string : The orientation of the slider to be set. By default, the value is orientation.
CDN Link: First, add jQuery UI scripts needed for your project.
<link href = "https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css" rel = "stylesheet"> <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script> <script src = "https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.js"></script>
Example 1: In this example, we will be using string value as vertical.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<link href=
"https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css"
rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src=
"https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js">
</script>
<script src=
"https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.js">
</script>
<script>
$(function () {
$("#gfg").slider({ orientation: "vertical" });
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
<h2>jQuery UI | slider orientation option</h2>
<div id="gfg"></div>
</body>
</html>
Output:

Example 2: In this example, we will be using string value as horizontal.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<link href=
"https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css"
rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src=
"https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js">
</script>
<script src=
"https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.js">
</script>
<script>
$(function () {
$("#gfg").slider({ orientation: "vertical" });
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>
<h2>jQuery UI | slider orientation option</h2>
<div id="gfg"></div>
</body>
</html>
Output:
Reference:https://api.jqueryui.com/slider/#option-orientation