jquery ui dialog fixed positioning

Question

Hi,

I needed the dialog to maintain its position fixed even if the page scrolled, so i used the extension at http://forum.jquery.com/topic/dialog-position-fixed-12-1-2010 but there's 2 problems with it:

• it flickers in IE and Firefox on page scroll (in Safari/Chrome it's fine)

• on closing and then reopening, it looses its stickyness and scrolls along with the page.

Here's the code i'm using for creating the dialog:

$('<div id="'+divpm_id+'"><div id="inner_'+divpm_id+'"></div><textarea class="msgTxt" id="txt'+divpm_id+'" rows="2"></textarea></div>')
                .dialog({
                autoOpen: true,
                title: user_str,
                height: 200,
                stack: true,
                sticky: true //uses ui dialog extension to keep it fixed
     });

And here's the code i'm using for reopening it:

jQuery('#'+divpm_id).parent().css('display','block');

Suggestions/solutions?

Thanks

Answer 1

try:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#myDialog').dialog({dialogClass: "flora"});
  $('.flora.ui-dialog').css({position:"fixed"});
)};

(from http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/2848)

Answer 2

 $('#myDialog').dialog({ dialogClass: "flora" });
        $('.flora.ui-dialog').css({ top: "8px" });

this will keep the dialog on top position no matter were we have clicked.