jQuery UI Spinner destroy() Method

Last Updated : 24 May, 2022

jQuery UI consists of GUI widgets, visual effects, and themes implemented using HTML, CSS, and jQuery. jQuery UI is great for building UI interfaces for the webpages. jQuery UI spinner widget helps us to increment and decrement values of an input element using up and down arrows.

In this article, we will see how to use destroy() method in jQuery UI spinner. This method removes the spinner functionality completely and returns the element back to its pre-init state.

Syntax:

$( ".selector" ).spinner( "destroy" );

Parameters: This method does not accept any parameters.

Return Value: This method returns the spinner element back to its pre-init state.

CDN Link: First, add jQuery UI scripts needed for your project.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css”>
<script src=”//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js”></script>
<script src=”//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js”></script>

Example: This example describes the jQuery UI Spinner destroy() method.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="utf-8" /> 
    <title> 
        jQuery UI Spinner destroy() Method 
    </title> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href= 
"//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css"> 
  
    <script src= 
"//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script src= 
 "//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"> 
    </script> 
  
    <style> 
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
  
        #divID { 
            width: 600px; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
  
        <h2>jQuery UI Spinner destroy() Method</h2> 
  
        <input id="inputID"> 
        <br><br> 
        <input type="button" id="btn" 
               value="Destroy Widget" 
               style="padding:5px 15px;"> 
     </center> 
  
    <script> 
        $(function () { 
            $("#divID").spinner(); 
  
            $("#btn").on('click', function() { 
                $("#divID").spinner("destroy"); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
</html>