jQuery Events for Metaboxes

[WraithKenny]

Currently, when a plugin adds a metabox with complex objects (like TinyMCE, Maps, CodeMirror etc) care must be taken to refresh the objects when the elements are moved (including hidden/shown).

After some digging, I've found that this seems to works in most cases:

var context = "#custom_meta_box_id";
$( '#adv-settings' ).on( 'click', context + '-hide, ', refresh );
$( context ).on( 'click', '.hndle, .handlediv', refresh );
	
$('.meta-box-sortables').bind( "sortstop", refresh );

which isn't terrible, but seems fragile if core changes in the future, and there should just be a better way :-)

Two ideas from dev chat are triggering custom events or the (coming soon) "js actions" which would be more robust (like php actions).

[scribu]

Related: #21170

[DrewAPicture]

Related: #19173

[adamsilverstein]

Closing this as wontfix due to a lack of activity and interest. Given the shift in development away from jQuery and meta boxes we can close this. If I missed some important/relevant use case, please feel free to re-open.

Two ideas from dev chat are triggering custom events or the (coming soon) "js actions" which would be more robust (like php actions).

we do now have wp.hooks with JS actions, in case someone wants to implement this.