Is there a destroy method for FlexSlider

Question

I am trying to reinitialize FlexSlider with out page refresh when a new gallery listing is called asynchronously.

I would think the routine below would work but it doesn't. It seems like the first FlexSlider persists even though the new images are successfully loaded.

Is there a way to destroy, then rebuild the gallery?

Thanks

function flexInit() {
        $('.flexslider').flexslider({
            animation: "slide",
            controlsContainer: ".paginator",
            manualControls: 'a',
            after: function(slider){
                if(slider.atEnd == true)    {
                    // ??? slider.destroy;
                    galBuild();
                }
            }
        });
    }

    function galBuild() {
            $.getJSON("/gallery/next/"+galID, function (data) {
            var results = data.objects;
            var list = $(".flexslider ul.slides");
            var i = 0;
            $.each(results, function () {

                list.append('<li><p>' + results[i].title + '</p><img src="' + results[i].src + '"><p class="flex-caption">' + results[i++].caption + '</p></li>');

            });

            flexInit(); 

            });
    }

    galBuild();

Answer 1

i'm using different approach i.e.

you've started one flexslider:

    $('#element).flexslider({
      animation: "slide",
      controlNav: false,
      directionNav: true
    });

when I want to change slides in previously created slider and restart it, id do following things:

• creating temporaty div:

  $('#element).before('
      <div id="element_temp" class="flexslider"></div>
  ');
  

• delete div with previously created slider

  $('#element).remove();
  

• insert new list of slides into temporary div:

  var html = `
  <ul class='slides">
  <li><img src="link to image" /></li>
  <li><img src="link to image" /></li>
  <li><img src="link to image" /></li>
  </ul>`;
  $('#element_temp').html(html);
  

• start flexslider on temp div

  $('#element_temp').flexslider({
    animation: "slide",
    controlNav: false,
    directionNav: true
  });
  

• change div ID from element_temp to element

  $('#element_temp').attr('id','element');
  

and it works with multiple flexliders