Summary

This is the fourth maintenance release for jQuery UI 1.8.

Because of the short lifespan of jQuery UI 1.8.3, this changelog includes all changes made in 1.8.3 and 1.8.4.

All

• Added: Define a local undefined variable inside the main closure. (21aad10)
• Added: Updated copyright headers to make it clear that you can choose between MIT and GPLv2. Added links to http://jquery.org/license and http://jqueryui.com/about. (8a5d4ca)

Build

• Added: automate theme downloading, first draft (4c3899c)
• Added: create themes.zip as part of themes-download target (a8311f9)
• Fixed: Download docs directly to dist folder (4069642)
• Fixed: all zips should contain folder at root named same as zip (#5759, 3824f75)
• Build: Remove googlecdn target from default target, as that requires themes-target to run first, which requires updated downloadbuilder (0bfbd7a)
• Fixed: themes zip named incorrectly (#5760, 496b408)
• Fixed: sometimes headered files aren't copied to minified directory (#5904, b242a57)

Core & Utilities

UI Core

• Fixed: $.fn.remove does not trigger remove event for <select>s (#5743, 89c0961)
• Added: .outerWidth(), .outerHeight(), .innerWidth(), .innerHeight() setters. (#5850, 4deb824)
• Partially Fixed: :focusable and :tabbable are broken with jQuery 1.3.2. (#4488, fe13fba, 3f070bd)

Widget Factory

• Fixed: Use $.data instead of .data for performance reasons (#5756, b3940d2)
• Fixed: Using inheritance overwrites the base classes options. (#5830, f24bc0f)

Interactions

Droppable

• Fixed: tolerance fit feature. (#5689, 3f3f357)

Resizable

• Fixed: Invalid reference in UI Resizable hack for Opera. (#5694, #5662, #5695, #3842, 7d24c1a, a78d5ee)

Selectable

• Fixed: Selectable helper has z-index hard coded (#4475, a90e195)
• Fixed: Selectable docs: .bind("selected") should be .bind("selectableselected") ([1])

Sortable

• Fixed: sortable("serialize", {key: "foo[]"}) returns an empty string for an empty list (#5794, 9d01ab5)

Widgets

Accordion

• Fixed: Disabled accordion doesn't look disabled in IE. (#5332, c71e63c)
• Fixed: Jumpy animation when opening a panel after closing all. (#5540, e895d86)
• Fixed: Accordion display problems in IE6/7 on panel close. (#4615, 936a9a6)
• Fixed: Accordion headers still show rollover when disabled. (#5330, 551bf6e)
• Fixed: autoHeight resize not working. (#5406, ba387ce)
• Fixed: Navigation parameter can open multiple sections. (#4889, 2bf91e8)
• Fixed: Long links create line breaks in IE. (#4662, 66659a1)
• Added: Use .addClass() instead of .toggleClass() during init so the classes can be added by the user. (f448c79)
• Fixed: Accordion active property inaccurate if nested accordion is present. (#5841, f99068b)
• Added: support multiple events being set at the same time (#3614, a3ab2b2)
• Fixed: Accordion should only manipulate Icons that are children of ui-accordion-header (#4645, 06f721b)
• Fixed: IE 8 function undefined() - Out of Stack Space (#5434, 21aad10)

Autocomplete

• Fixed: autocomplete triggered when field copied with ctrl-c. (#5716, 2ed96cb)
• Fixed: combobox demo does not accept valid values. (#5605, 5d1e297)
• Fixed: combobox demo: Set intial value of text field based on value of select element. (#5757, 123467a)
• Added: add appendTo option. (#5836, 74e0d4f)
• Added: document and demo a scrolling menu. (#5815, 5e3755a)
• Added: Support for accent-folding. (#5219, 5debdb0)
• Added: position option. (#5153, 612838a)
• Fixed: combobox demo doesn't remove invalid values. (#5453, c2c09e8)
• Fixed: Cursor jumps to beginning on select. (#5639, 53489b5)
• Fixed: Prevent the default behavior of pressing enter when the menu is open, even if no item is active. (#5757, e85615f)
• Fixed: Inconsistent default styling while loading results. (#5385, fe71d5d)
• Fixed: suggestions are not html-encoded. (#5275, 1f2cfb9)
• Fixed: Autocomplete widget keeps looking for remote data even when it's disabled. (#5619, 90caa93)
• Fixed: Updated escapeRegex utility based on http://xregexp.com/xregexp.js (0bbbe5f)
• Fixed: menu has incorrect width. (#5832, 325a262)
• Fixed: wrong menu size calculation in webkit browsers (Autocomplete). (#5691, a090faa)
• Fixed: Issue when try to navigate using up key by keyboard in IE6. (#5528, 5311fe2)
• Fixed: Combobox/Autocomplete doesn't save value unless control loses focus (#5640, ba091650)
• Fixed: Image missing when downloading autocomplete: ui-anim_basic_16x16.gif (#5432, fe71d5d)
• Fixed: Change event for Autocomplete Combobox does not work in IE7 (#5775, ba091650)
• Fixed: Autocomplete doesn't close after scrolling (#5903, de266a1)
• Fixed: mousing over menu option replaces text box contents, moves caret (#5900, ed07f0a)

Button

• Fixed: specifying only a secondary icon for the button widget locates the icon on the left (#5382, 202ddd0)
• Fixed: Buttonset and applet error. (#5810, 70481d9)

Datepicker

• Fixed: Error in datepicker translation for pt-BR. (#5363, ba749ba)
• Fixed: Typo in Calendar localization demo. (#5859, dde27da)
• Fixed: DatePicker Dialog defaultDate incorrect behaviour (#5676, eb13c01)
• Fixed: inconsistent behavior in IE when click to close month and year drop-downs (#5897, 85b8816)

Dialog

• Fixed: Remove reference to obsolete overlay option in demo. (9241757)
• Fixed: Accordion overflow breaks when displayed inside a dialog on Internet Explorer. (#4319, cdd6161)
• Fixed: Setting Dialog height shorter after init hides button pane (#4846, f560862)
• Fixed: On open, the first tabbable element inside the dialog was never being focused in favor of the dialog container. (#5767, 64d90b4)
• Added: Dialog: expose .position() API (#5459, 6de9a53)
• Fixed: bad reference to bgiframe in demo. (594b7f5)
• Fixed: dialog width should be at least minWidth on creation. (#5531, c5770c0)
• Fixed: size inconsistency with button widgets and dialog box buttons. (#5779, 60dc674)
• Fixed: Form field with `name="title"` moved to title area. (#5742, 2c7a9e9)
• Fixed: dialog buttons are accessed in wrong order using tab. (#4529, 61e0aea)

Progressbar

• Fixed: resize demo is broken. (#5873, ee1f5b5)

Slider

• Fixed: Redundant call to _normValueFromMouse (#5796, 92b7722)

Tabs

• Added: have option to remove tab by href content, not just by index. (#3171, fde8c64)

Effects

• Fixed: hide and show called with ommiting the options in parameters does not call the callback (#5731, 4be0942, 1417487)

CSS Framework

• Added: header info to all CSS files. (#5825, d8caa61)
• Fixed: ThemeRoller is broken (#5776, #5840)

Demos

• Fixed: Added position plugin to demo pages that use dialogs. (d7fa82b)
• Fixed: Demo for color animation doesn't work (#5858)