Widget: $.widget.extend(): Properly handle extending a string with an object. Fixes #8713 - Passing an object as ui.resizable handles parameter does not work.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js b/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
index a125dd5ac..96cc6071c 100644
--- a/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
+++ b/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
@@ -143,7 +143,11 @@ $.widget.extend = function( target ) {
 		for ( key in input[ inputIndex ] ) {
 			value = input[ inputIndex ][ key ];
 			if (input[ inputIndex ].hasOwnProperty( key ) && value !== undefined ) {
-				target[ key ] = $.isPlainObject( value ) ? $.widget.extend( {}, target[ key ], value ) : value;
+				if ( $.isPlainObject( value ) && $.isPlainObject( target[ key ] ) ) {
+					target[ key ] = $.widget.extend( {}, target[ key ], value );
+				} else {
+					target[ key ] = value;
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}