jqueryUI destroy dialog without removing original element? - jquery-ui

I'm using jQueryUI to create a dialog, I want the dialog object to be destroyed when it's removed.
So I did something like this:
thisDialog.dialog({
autoOpen: true,
close: function(event, ui) {
thisDialog.dialog("destroy");
}
});
What I want to do is maintain the existence of the element that thisDialog is attached to, but simply destroy the jQueryUI .dialog() object that is attached to it, not change my DOM.
Sample:
http://jsfiddle.net/ytWPV/1/
Update:
This may be a bug/issue with jQueryUI? If someone can show that, I'll accept that as an answer as well

I am not sure what you want to accomplish with "destroy" versus "close", but I will assume you have good reasons.
If you can successfully close your dialog (essentially setting the entire DIV that represents your dialog to the CSS equivalent of display:none) but want to go further and have the html more permanently removed from the DOM, I would add some logic to the close function that would use a selector (any selector will suffice) to find the top-most DIV for your dialog and then to manually set the .html() for that DIV to and empty string. That will basically wipe out the internal HTML and leave you with only your original that once acted as a dialog...

You could also try cloning the element if it doesn't change such as:
$("#win2").clone().attr("id","random").dialog({
autoOpen: true,
height: 60,
width: 50,
modal: true,
close: function(event, ui) {
alert($(".hide").html())
this.dialog("destroy");
}
});
...which the original code came from your example.

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Jquery UI tooltip - multiple tooltips

I'm using jquery UI for my tooltips. I would like to have more than one on the same page and have them open and close on click. I found a solution for having them open on click:
http://jsfiddle.net/rjGeS/83/
(taken from this link -> jQueryUI tooltip Widget to show tooltip on Click)
What I need help with is having multiple tooltips on one page.
I tried altering the code slightly to make it work, but its just opening them all
$('#tooltip_1').click(function() {
var $this = $(this);
$(".tooltip").html(function() {
$('.ttip').css({
left: $this.position() + '20px',
top: $this.position() + '50px'
}).show()
}).fadeIn();
});
$('#tooltip_2').click(function() {
var $this = $(this);
$(".tooltip").html(function() {
$('.ttip').css({
left: $this.position() + '20px',
top: $this.position() + '50px'
}).show()
}).fadeIn();
});
The example code you've posted actually has nothing to do with jQueryUI Tooltips, I'll give a clean example instead.
You can use the open() and close() functions to show and hide tooltips programmatically. If you also need to stop the default tooltip functionality (as in, showing them on mouseover events) the easy way to do that is to use the disabled option.
Since you didn't specify if this should be click-once-show-all or not, here's a fiddle doing it for all: http://jsfiddle.net/wuL9M/ and here's a fiddle doing it individually: http://jsfiddle.net/qnYRy/
Note this line:
$(".tooltip").off("mouseleave focusout");
It disables the default closing behaviour while the tooltip is open.
If you want to partially preserve only some of the default tooltip functionality, you can use a custom flag (instead of the disabled option), or you can attach extra event handlers to tooltipopen and tooltipclose. It's all pretty well documented here.
ADD: You can use the content option to customise the tooltip with any (potentially non-static) data. eg: http://jsfiddle.net/qnYRy/1/ You can change it after initialisation with the option function:
$("#myTooltip").tooltip("option", "content", "My updated tooltip data");
$("#myTooltip").tooltip("option", "content", function() { return "My updated tooltip data"; });
For obvious reasons this would require you to set the content for each tooltip separately. Also note that it will ignore any html title attribute you may have.

Is there any way to control the layout of the close button on a jQuery Mobile custom select menu?

I have a custom select menu (multiple) defined as follows:
<select name="DanceStyles" id="DanceStyles" multiple="multiple" data-native-menu="false">
Everything works fine except that I want to move the header's button icon over to the right AND display the Close text. (I have found some mobile users have a problem either realising what the X icon is for or they have trouble clicking it, so I want it on the right with the word 'Close' making too big to miss.) There don't seem to be any options for doing that on the select since its options apply to the select bar itself.
I have tried intercepting the create event and in there, finding the button anchor and adding a create handler for that, doing something like this (I have tried several variations, as you can see by the commenting out):
$('#search').live('pagecreate', function (event) {
$("#DanceStyles").selectmenu({
create: function (event, ui) {
$('ul#DanceStyles-menu').prev().find('a.ui-btn').button({
create: function (event, ui) {
var $btn = $(this);
$btn.attr('class', $btn.attr('class').replace('ui-btn-left', 'ui-btn-right'));
$btn.attr('class', $btn.attr('class').replace('ui-btn-icon-notext', 'ui-btn-icon-left'));
// $(this).button({ iconpos: 'right' });
// $btn.attr('class', $btn.attr('class').replace('ui-btn-icon-notext', 'ui-btn-icon-left'));
// // $btn.attr('data-iconpos', 'left');
$(this).button('refresh');
}
});
}
});
});
So I have tried resetting the button options and calling refresh (didn't work), and changing the CSS. Neither worked and I got weird formatting issues with the close icon having a line break.
Anyone know the right way to do this?
I got this to work cleanly after looking at the source code for the selectmenu plugin. It is not in fact using a button; the anchor tag is the source for the buttonMarkup plugin, which has already been created (natch) before the Create event fires.
This means that the markup has already been created. My first attempt (see my question) where I try to mangle the existing markup is too messy. It is cleaner and more reliable to remove the buttonMarkup and recreate it with my desired options. Note that the '#search' selector is the id of the JQ page-div, and '#DanceStyles' is the id of my native select element. I could see the latter being used for the id of the menu, which is why I select it first and navigate back up and down to the anchor; I couldn't see any other reliable way to get to the anchor.
$('#search').live('pagecreate', function (event) {
$("#DanceStyles").selectmenu({
create: function (event, ui) {
$('ul#DanceStyles-menu').prev().find('a.ui-btn')
.empty()
.text('Done')
.attr('class', 'ui-btn-right')
.attr("data-" + $.mobile.ns + "iconpos", '')
.attr("data-" + $.mobile.ns + "icon", '')
.attr("title", 'Done')
.buttonMarkup({ iconpos: 'left', icon: 'arrow-l' });
}
});
});
The buttonMarkup plugin uses the A element's text and class values when creating itself but the other data- attributes result from the previous buttonMarkup and have to be removed, as does the inner html that the buttonMarkup creates (child span, etc). The title attribute was not recreated, for some reason, so I set it myself.
PS If anyone knows of a better way to achieve this (buttonMarkup('remove')? for example), please let us know.
the way i achieved it was changing a bit of the jquery mobile code so that the close button always came to the right, without an icon and with the text, "Close"
not the best way i agree. but works..
I got a similar case, and I did some dirty hack about this :P
$("#DanceStyles-button").click(function() {
setTimeout(function(){
$("#DanceStyles-dialog a[role=button]").removeClass("ui-icon-delete").addClass("ui-icon-check");
$("#DanceStyles-dialog .ui-title").html("<span style='float:left;margin-left:25px' id='done'>Done</span>Dance Styles");
$("#DanceStyles-dialog .ui-title #done").click(function() {
$("#DanceStyles").selectmenu("close")
});
},1);
} );

Setting dialog overlay Jquery

I want to set the overlay of a jQuery dialog to an image, and can't seem to manage the task.
I have other dialogs on the pages that I want to no have the background images, so setting the css for the overlay background won't work as a blanket solution.
I have tried a lot of different methods, and I believe there is a timing issue with the appliction of the jQuery command to set the overlay with css and the actual dialog div's and css getting added to the DOM.
Here is what I have tried so far.
$('#submitUpload').click(function(){
$("#uploadStart").dialog('open');
$(".ui-widget-overlay").css({'background-image': 'url("http://www.mydomain.com/images/ftp-page-bg.gif")','opacity':'1'})
$("#uploadForm").submit();
});
OR
$("#uploadStart").dialog({
autoOpen: false,
width: 400,
modal: true,
closeOnEscape: false,
draggable: false,
resizable: false,
open: function(event, ui) {
$(".ui-dialog-titlebar-close").hide();
$(".ui-widget-overlay").css({'background-image': 'url("http://www.mydomain.com/images/ftp-page-bg.gif")','opacity':'1'})
}
});
I have also tried using the dialogClass method on the dialog code with no success.
With both the absolute url and the relative, and the url in quotes or with no quotes.
The image exists in the directory.
Anyone have any ideas on how to get jQuery to apply with the correct timing to display the image as the overlay?
Thanks!
Update
The dialog class designation will allow you to set classes for the overal dialog. I was actually looking to just tap into the specific ui-widget-overlay class and over-ride the background image there. I found that trying to override the background using the dialogClass worked for overriding the background of the dialog, not the overlay background.
When the dialog is added to the DOM, jQuery loads it's div's right before the body tag.
I found a solution, being that in the open method for the dialog, I used
$(".ui-widget-overlay").addClass('artFTP');
to add a class
.artFTP{background-image: url(../../images/ftp-page-bg.gif); opacity:1;}
and made sure it was the last class in the file that would overwrite the overlay background image.
I hope this helps someone.
Thanks and +1 to jjross, your answer got me to jump back into the jQuery docs.
If anyone has a better solution, please post. I would be happy to see it. I think there might be a way to use CSS to accomplish the task, but (for the life of me) couldn't figure it out.
You should be able to add the class to the div in your HTML code prior to jquery being called on it. In my testing, this automatically added that class to the dialog when it was created.
In the new class, you should be able to specify a background image.
For example:
calling:
$("#dialog").dialog();
on
<div id="dialog" class="thisClass" title="Edit Case Status">
<div>some stuff</div>
</div>
causes the dialog to be created with the
"thisClass" class.
as an alternative option, it looks like the dialog has a "dialogClass" method. It will let you add your own class to the dialog (in that class, you can define the background). From the docs:
The specified class name(s) will be added to the dialog, for additional theming.
Code examples
Initialize a dialog with the dialogClass option specified.
$( ".selector" ).dialog({ dialogClass: 'alert' });
Get or set the dialogClass option, after init.
//getter
var dialogClass = $( ".selector" ).dialog( "option", "dialogClass" );
//setter
$( ".selector" ).dialog( "option", "dialogClass", 'alert' );
I encountered the same problem and found In this case your question. I didn't find any solution that could satisfy me, so I did something on my own.
First, let me introduce my problem.
I have a page, where I have two kinds of dialogs. Dialogs with video and dialogs with message (like alert, confirmation, error etc.). As we know, we can set a different class for a dialog, but we can't set class for different overlay. So question was, how to set a different behavior for different overlays?
So I dig, I dig deeper than Dwarves in Moria into jQuery ui code itself. I found out, that actualy there is an unique overlay for each dialog. And it is created in "private" function _createOverlay which is not accessible. In fact, I found function via jquery ui namespace as $.ui.dialog.prototype._createOverlay. So I was able to make a small extension with logic based on class:
(function() {
// memorize old function
var originFn = $.ui.dialog.prototype._createOverlay;
// make new function
$.ui.dialog.prototype._createOverlay = function() {
originFn.call(this); // call old one
// write your own extension code there
if (this.options["dialogClass"] === "video-dialog") {
var overlay = this.overlay; // memorize overlay (it is in old function call as this.overlay)
var that = this; // just cause bind is event
// my own extenstion, when you click anywhere on overlay, dialog is closed + I change css
overlay.bind('click', function() {
that.close(); // it is same like element.dialog('close');
}).css({
"background": "none",
"background-image": "url(\'files/main-page/profile1.png\')" // this didnt work for you, but works for me... maybe I have newer version of jQuery.UI
// anyway, once you have overlay as variable, Im sure you will be able to change its css
});
}
};
})();
I hope this will help others :)

jQuery.post() issues with passing data to jQuery UI

I am trying to get jQuery.post() to run my php script and then open a jQuery UI dialog with the data that php script returns. Its supposed to come back as a form with a table and a textarea in it. It works great with alert(data); and i get a pop-up with all my data.
The problem starts if i turn off alert(). Now it opens 2 dialogs. One containing only the table, without textarea, and the second one absolutely empty.
What am i doing wrong here? How come all my data shows up in the alert(), but not in dialog? What do i need to do to fix it?
Oh, and do i need to also include $.ajax() before the $.post()?
Thank you.
$.post("/path/to/script.php",
{ id: this.id, value: value },
function(data){
// THIS WORKS
//alert(data);
// THIS DOES NOT WORK
$(data).dialog({
autoOpen: true,
width: 400,
modal: true,
position: 'center',
resizable: false,
draggable: true,
title: 'Pending Changes'
});
}
);
You don't need another $.ajax() call. The $.post() method is a wrapper shortcut to $.ajax(). What might be happening is you may be getting both default behavior and Javascript bound behavior. I'm assuming this $.post action triggered on a click. If so, then at the very end of your $.click() handler you need to return false to prevent default behavior.
$('input[type=submit]').click(function() {
$.post( /* ... */ );
return false;
});
This is how I handle it. I have a empty div and initialize the dialog upon document ready. Now on the ajax return load that div's html with the data received from PHP and call the "open" method of dialog. Simple and definitely works.
HTH
Ah! This was not a problem with the JS, but my php file.
The textarea was sitting outside of <div>blah blah</div>.
Problem solved.

Jquery UI panel resizing on click

I am using Jquery Ui panels.([http://code.google.com/p/ist-ui-panel/][1])
While loading the application, everything is fine like collasible, draggable etc.
But i want to make the panel collapsible while clicking on some links.fo ex:
This code will run when the form is loading....
$('#myNews').panel({
'collapsible' :true,
'stackable':false,
});
The html
<div class="panel" id="myNews" >
<h3>Poll</h3>
<div>Some content</div>
</div>
I want to make 'collapsible' :false when clicking some link.... like this
$('#click1').click(function() {
$('#myNews').panel({
'collapseType':'slide-right',
'collapsible':false,
});
});
the code is running without any error, but the '#myNews' not getting affected when clicking the '#click1' link.
Need some help pls.
Thanks in advance
I'm the one behind ist-ui-panel, and Jesse was right — by now the only way for you is to use 'destroy' method somewhat like:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#click1').bind({
'click': function() {
$('#myNews').panel('destroy');
$('#myNews').panel({
'collapsible' :true,
'collapseType':'slide-right',
'stackable':true
});
}
});
$('#click2').bind({
'click': function() {
$('#myNews').panel('destroy');
$('#myNews').panel({'collapsible': false});
}
});
});
Notice, you should explicitly destroy previous panel before making a new one.
If you read the uncompressed source code for that widget, it appears that what you are doing is only meant to be used to create panels, not to modify them afterward.
The underlying software is either buggy or I don't understand it. So you'll have to hunt down some bugs, but you can use the 'destroy' method on that widget to reset the div completely, and then make it a panel again, like so:
$('#myNews').panel("destroy");
$('#myNews').panel(...
As I said, it's buggy or I don't quite get it - there's an error raised by the destroy call which you have to catch, and subsequent calls to make new panels do make panels, but they aren't completely correct.

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