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As for your specific use case, it sounds like you really want a selectmenu, not a button. Can you explain why you've chosen to use a button with two icons rather than an actual selectmenu?

I used buttons to have drop down menus which can sometimes have sub-menus, so a selectmenu doesn't quite work. 

Basically I had an icon on the left to indicate what type of menu the button would pull up (which is a jquery-ui.menu).  The drop down button menu is also used as the context menu as tablets can't access it.  We also use them in toolbars with other buttons, thus keeping a consistent look.

J

Just to notify you of a mistake on your web page http://api.jqueryui.com/dialog/#option-buttons, it references that the icons option should be set.

Select Menu won't work for what we use it for:

In one app I have rows of buttons and a left click context menu (JQuery Menu) on the page.  The last button usually says "Menu" and clicking it shows the context menu below the button (because no left click on iPads). There are also other examples where the button says "New" and again a context menu appears below the button saying "New this" or "New that" and each menu option opens a different dialog.

The buttons never change their label or icons, regardless which menu option is clicked.  Page data population and actions are all done via Ajax so the data content is dynamic with no page reload, so the menus and buttons never change for the few hours the same page is open.

It's not a killer that the option of 2 icons has been removed, but it makes the buttons less obvious to what a click does.

J

P.S. I have written a simple jQuery UI WYSIWYG editor, when I get the chance I will send it over to you for use on the jQuery UI project (I need to standardise it to jQuery a bit more first).

You can't control both icons through the API, but that doesn't matter for your use case. You'll see that the first button uses the JS API to add the appropriate classes and inject one of the icons. The second button doesn't use the JS widget at all, it relies purely on the CSS and therefore includes all the appropriate classes in the markup.

As for the WYSIWYG editor, we have no desire to ship an editor in jQuery UI. There are enough well implemented and well supported WYSIWYG editors already.