jquery-ui-dialog

Javascript and CSS Popups

Hi all, I've got a question about CSS based popup windows, like those generated by jQuery UI's dialog system, or Colorbox. If I use those (or something like them) to open a popup window to an HTML page and that page has Javascript in it, does the Javascript in the popup window run in its own context, or does it become part of the contex...

Opening href in jQuery Dialog

Okay, so I've got the following code to create a dialog of a div within a page: $('#modal').dialog({ autoOpen: false, width: 600, height: 450, modal: true, resizable: false, draggable: false, title: 'Enter Data', close: function() { $("#modal .entry_dat...

asp.net mvc & jquery dialog: What approach do I take to add items to a dropdownlist/select list without full postaback?

Hi, I am new to MVC and have a grasp of the basic model, but still doing everything with postbacks etc. One aspect of the UI I want to build is to have a drop-down-list of items with a button to add an item to the database and refresh the list. Achieving this with WebForms was straight forward as everything was wrapped in UpdatePanels,...

With a jquery modular dialog how do I stop the form values from persisting?

(Citing source at: http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal-form) As an example, this works great but each time the form is subsequently opened the user entered values remain. How can I stop this behavior? (the form will be used multiple times on the same page. <style type="text/css"> body { font-size: 62.5%; } label...

jQuery UI Dialog Button Icons

Is it possible to add icons to the buttons on a jQuery UI Dialog? I've tried doing it this way: $("#DeleteDialog").dialog({ resizable: false, height:150, modal: true, buttons: { 'Delete': function() { /* Do stuff */ $(this).dialog('close'); }, Cancel: function() { ...

jQuery Dialog causing buttons not to post-back

I'm using the jQuery UI Dialog() function on an ASP.NET webform, on a particular panel. After Dialog() is applied, the buttons become useless and will not post back at all; I'm not even getting a Page_Load event firing, let alone any button events. Is the Dialog function messing with my button events? If so, is there a way to fix this?...

jQuery UI autocomplete combobox in a modal dialog

I want to use a autocomplete combobox http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/#combobox within a modal dialog. However whenever I click on the down arrow (of the combobox) it causes a refresh that results in my modal window closing. How do I stop the refresh from occuring? (I am still new to jQuery) I am using UI 1.8 and jQuery 1.4....

Display issue with jQuery dialog: form shows as separate window

On my button click, the jQuery dialog appears with just the title and buttons. When you mouseover, then you see the form inputs in front of the dialog covering the buttons. When you scroll down, the form inputs do not move, so you can never see the last few textboxes. <div id="popupCreateCompany" title="Create a new company"> <form> ...

Displaying a silverlight plugin in a jQuery UI dialog box not sizing correctly.

I have a login page which detects if silverlight is installed and will degrade to html when it is not. I'm using jQueryUI.dialog to display both; the dialog box appears but is too small to see the content completely and i have to resize it manually. I think it's something to do with the order the javascript is running on the page. Can ...

JQuery UI Dialog - Ajax Update on success $(this).dialog('close');

Having issues referencing $(this) from within a the nested ajax 'success' function... I know this is a scope issue, but can't seem to find a clean way to close the dialog on a successful update. Thanks for any help. $("#dialog_support_option_form").dialog({ width: 400, height: 180, bgiframe: true, autoOp...

What's the best practice to add default function to jQuery Dialog open/close events?

Hi All, I'm trying to define some default behaviours for my jQuery Dialogs like the following: (function($) { /** * Overriding default options **/ $.ui.dialog.defaults.bgiframe = true; $.ui.dialog.defaults.open = function() { if ($('.ui-widget-overlay').length == 0) return; ...

jquery dialog - which button opened the dialog?

In the example below, how can you use the event and ui objects to detect which link opened the dialog? Can't seem to get $(event.target).attr("title"); to work properly, and I'm having trouble finding documentation on the 'ui object that is passed. Thanks! $("#dialog_support_option_form").dialog({ link_title = $(event.target).attr(...

jquery form dialog dissapears if i use effect

i am using JqueryUI and everything was fine until i tried to jazz it up and added an effect for showing and closing the dialog. Now the dialog appears and disappears in an instant. I am using CAKEPHP, if that matter and still have cake.generic.css on and the debug option on, but i dont see how this could matter. here is my output html...

Populating fields in modal form using PHP, jQuery

I have a form that adds links to a database, deletes them, and -- soon -- allows the user to edit details. I am using jQuery and Ajax heavily on this project and would like to keep all control in the same page. In the past, to handle editing something like details about another website (link entry), I would have sent the user to another ...

jQuery dialog breaking after closing - I'm using dialog destroy

I've got a few demo videos I've been making as tutorials, and I'm using a link to open a dialog box and put the demo video in that box. I use the same div to show other notes on the page when a user selects to view a complete note. The code I use to show the notes is jQuery('span.Notes').live('click', function(){ var note=jQuery...

jquery ui dialog fixed positioning

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 a...

Selected value from drop-down list doesn't post from jquery dialog

I have a jQuery dialog. All of the fields are posting correctly except for the drop-downs, the value is getting passed as null rather than the selected value. <div id="popupCreateCompany" title="Create a new company"> <form> <fieldset> <p> <label for="company_name">Company Name:</label> <%= Html.TextB...

asp.net external form loading into jquery dialog submit button issue

I am loading an external file 'contact_us.aspx' into a jquery dialog box. the external page contains a form. When the submit button is pressed it closes the dialog box and changes the page to contact_us.aspx. is my code correct or is there a different way of doing this. see my code below, thanks. This JS is in y masterpage: <script...

Passing Data in and out of CKEditor / jQuery-UI Modal Dialog

Greetings, Overflowers! I am writing an application in PHP that will allow for editing various blocks of content via a button that loads a CKEditor Instance inside a jQuery-UI Modal Dialog box. I've got the button working to launch the Dialog, as shown in these screenshots: The example shows the 'Main Content' content inside the D...

Correctly calling setGridWidth on a jqGrid inside a jQueryUI Dialog

I have a jQueryUI dialog (#locDialog) which has a jqGrid ($grid) inside it. When the Dialog opens (initially, but it gets called whenever it opens), I want the $grid to resize to the size of the $locDialog. When I do this initially, I get scrollbars inside the grid (not inside the dialog). If I debug the code, I see the width of the $...