Jquery slider with radio buttons

I've been reading this [1]: Using JQuery UI to convert radio buttons into slider elements

and now have a slider that slides using radio buttons. I'm having trouble trying to set the default value of the slider. I have a hidden field on the page that contains the default value as a number and I want the radio button with that id to be checked and have t开发者_如何学Che slider represent this. All i can think of doing is using javascript to check that radio button. Is this correct?

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Use ELEMENT.prop("checked", true) under jQuery 1.6 or ELEMENT.attr('checked','checked') for anything under jQuery 1.6 to check the radio button, and for the slider you can use SLIDER_ELEMENT.value(MY_VALUE) to set the value of it.