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JQuery UI Dialog shows on page instead of popup

I have a jqueryUI dialog popup that is showing on the page... and popping up when requested. Some odd functionality. Anything within the div will show on the page, and the popup will work however be without the contents on the div. I am trying to create the popup before the document is ready. Here is the code that my object is running, again before document ready.
var edit_div=document.createElement('div');
var me = this;
$(edit_div).dialog(
{
autoOpen: false,
height: 400,
width: 600,
resizable: false,
modal: true,
buttons:
{
"Submit": function()
{
me.submitForm();
},
Cancel: function()
{
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
}
},
close: function()
{
},
});
The popup works correctly if I move the dialog creation code to a separate function and call that when the document is ready like so:
$(document).ready(function()
{
mfg_table.init();
}
And the init code to create the dialog
this.init = function()
{
//alert('initing');
var me = this;
$('#' +this.table_id + this.edit_table_name).dialog(
{
autoOpen: false,
height: 400,
width: 600,
resizable: false,
modal: true,
buttons:
{
"Submit": function()
{
me.submitForm();
},
Cancel: function()
{
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
}
},
close: function()
{
},
});
}
So why can't I create the dialog on the DOM object before rendering of the page?

Is it possible your script is being called before your jquery.js files are being loaded by the browser?
Document.ready waits until the page is fully loaded before running your code. The fact that it isn't working correctly without it, implies that the necessary resources aren't being loaded before you try to run your script.
You may want to try to move your inline script to the very end of your html file, particularly after all your .js and plugin files have been referenced.
I wish I could be more specific, but it's hard to see whats going on without more of the code or a live example.

create jquery dialog from javascript object

I have an javascript / jquery object that renders html - a div with a table and an edit button, and a jquery popup dialog.
I have always called the jquery dialog in $(document).ready(function(){});
Is it possible to create the dialog when I create the object.
in other words
object = new newTable('div_id');
and in the object there is
$(document).ready(function()
{
$( "#" + this.popup_id ).dialog(
{
autoOpen: false,
height: 600,
width: 600,
resizable: false,
modal: true,
buttons:
{
"Next": function()
{
process_account_wizard('next');
},
"Skip": function()
{
process_account_wizard('skip');
},
Cancel: function()
{
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
}
},
close: function()
{
},
});
});
so when the document is ready the objects sets up the dialog.
An alternate question is can I automatically run initialization code for an object once the page is loaded?
Edit: I have confirmed I can first create the object then run object.init() in the document ready function and the dialog works correctly. Trying to avoid this an make the object do it automatically.
I might have to edit this question a few times to figure out how to ask it. Thanks for your help

Basically you want to convert your object variable (though I'd want to think up a more appropriate name than "object") and initialise the dialog against that.
So, within whatever function calls object = new newTable('div_id'); paste your dialog initialisation from your question replacing -
$( "#" + this.popup_id ).dialog(
with
$(object).dialog(

How to automatically show a dialog that ask confirmation when the user click in an image using JavaScript?

I am absolutly new in JavaScript and I have this doubt.
I have this clickable image:
<img src="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/images/delete.png" alt="remove"
id="RemoveProject"
style="cursor: pointer;"
title="remove"
onClick="submitMyProjectAction('<s:property value="idProjectInfo"/>', this.id)"
/>
As you can see when the user click on the image it is performed this JavaScript function that simply submit a form:
function submitMyProjectAction(id, imgId) {
alert(imgId);
document.getElementById("projectActionId").value = id;
document.getElementById("clickedActionId").value = imgId;
document.getElementById('myProjectAction').submit();
}
I know that should exist a way to automatically open something like a dialog that ask confirmation for this operation. So if the user click on yes the submitMyProjectAction() JavaScript function is performed.
But I can't remember the name of this stuff. Can you help me?

I think the confirm() function is what you're looking for.

Or you could use jQuery UI, with a modal confirmation (http://jqueryui.com/dialog/#modal-confirmation).
So, when user clicks the image, that modal form will show. It will have two buttons, and clicking "Confirm Action" will trigger the function you want to, submitMyProjectAction();
It will log something like this:
function BeforeSubmitMyProjectOption() {
$( "#dialog-confirm" ).dialog({
resizable: false,
height:140,
modal: true,
buttons: {
"Confirm Action": function() {
submitMyProjectAction(id, imgId)
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
},
Cancel Action: function() {
$( this ).dialog( "close" );
}
}
});

jQuery UI dialog box does not appear

I'm pretty much a total noob to JavaScript and jQuery and I'm having trouble getting a basic dialog box working. Here is my code:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var dialog = $("#dialog");
dialog.dialog({
title: "Dialog",
modal: true,
draggable: false,
resizable: false,
autoOpen: false,
width: 500,
height: 400
});
dialog.hide();
});
function showDialog() {
$("#dialog").dialog("open");
}
$("ui-widget-overlay").click(function() {
$(".ui-dialog-titlebar-close").trigger("click");
});
</script>
<div id="dialog">
Dialog text.
</div>
<button onclick="showDialog()">Show Dialog</button>
When I click the button, the title bar of the dialog comes up and the background of the page dims, but there are two problems:
The body of the dialog does not show (all that shows is the title bar)
When I click outside of the dialog, the dialog does not close. I have to click the "x" in the corner in order for the dialog to close.
I've been reading tons of related questions on here, but nothing I try seems to work. Any advice?

I believe the problem you're having is from this line:
dialog.hide();
What I would suggest is removing all of the dialog content from the dialog div and populating it when you actually show the dialog.
<div id="dialog"></div>
function showDialog()
{
$("#dialog").html("Dialog Text.");
$("#dialog").dialog("open");
}
As for handling the close part, have you tried nesting everything in the main page in a <div> of its own and then handling that click event?
<div id="mainPageDiv">
</div>
$("#mainPageDiv").click(function(){
$("#dialog").dialog("close");
});

Just use a modal dialog and close the dialog when they click the overlay. Also, you should not need to put any code in $(document).ready for this.
function showDialog() {
var dialog = $("#dialog");
dialog.dialog({
title: "Dialog",
modal: true,
open: function () {
$('.ui-widget-overlay').bind('click', function () {
dialog.dialog('close');
});
}
});
}
Demonstration

I see your:
$("ui-widget-overlay").click(
perhaps should select a class:
$(".ui-widget-overlay").click(
which does not happen as it does not exist, so you need to hook it to the document.
and the dialog.hide(); is not needed as it hides it automatically when it becomes a dialog
SO you should have:
$(document).on('click',".ui-widget-overlay", function() {
$(".ui-dialog-titlebar-close").trigger("click");
});
more simply:(if you have no other dialogs you need to deal with this way)
$(document).on('click',".ui-widget-overlay", function() {
$("#dialog").dialog("close");
});
sample fiddle to show full reworked code: http://jsfiddle.net/GrFE3/2/

I am adding this as an additional answer as it goes about this differently, changing the markup, removing the in-line event handler in the markup, uses your button, and uses your dialog variable (differently than you, but...
<div id="dialog">
Dialog text.
</div>
<button id="showDialog">Show Dialog</button>
and the code for that markup:
$(document).ready(function() {
var dialog = $("#dialog");
dialog.dialog({
title: "Dialog",
modal: true,
draggable: false,
resizable: false,
autoOpen: false,
width: 500,
height: 400
});
$('#showDialog').click(function() {
dialog.dialog("open");
});
$(document).on('click', ".ui-widget-overlay", function() {
dialog.dialog("close");
});
});

jQuery UI - Close Dialog When Clicked Outside

I have a jQuery UI Dialog that gets displayed when specific elements are clicked. I would like to close the dialog if a click occurs anywhere other than on those triggering elements or the dialog itself.
Here's the code for opening the dialog:
$(document).ready(function() {
var $field_hint = $('<div></div>')
.dialog({
autoOpen: false,
minHeight: 50,
resizable: false,
width: 375
});
$('.hint').click(function() {
var $hint = $(this);
$field_hint.html($hint.html());
$field_hint.dialog('option', 'position', [162, $hint.offset().top + 25]);
$field_hint.dialog('option', 'title', $hint.siblings('label').html());
$field_hint.dialog('open');
});
/*$(document).click(function() {
$field_hint.dialog('close');
});*/
});
If I uncomment the last part, the dialog never opens. I assume it's because the same click that opens the dialog is closing it again.
Final Working Code
Note: This is using the jQuery outside events plugin
$(document).ready(function() {
// dialog element to .hint
var $field_hint = $('<div></div>')
.dialog({
autoOpen: false,
minHeight: 0,
resizable: false,
width: 376
})
.bind('clickoutside', function(e) {
$target = $(e.target);
if (!$target.filter('.hint').length
&& !$target.filter('.hintclickicon').length) {
$field_hint.dialog('close');
}
});
// attach dialog element to .hint elements
$('.hint').click(function() {
var $hint = $(this);
$field_hint.html('<div style="max-height: 300px;">' + $hint.html() + '</div>');
$field_hint.dialog('option', 'position', [$hint.offset().left - 384, $hint.offset().top + 24 - $(document).scrollTop()]);
$field_hint.dialog('option', 'title', $hint.siblings('label').html());
$field_hint.dialog('open');
});
// trigger .hint dialog with an anchor tag referencing the form element
$('.hintclickicon').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$($(this).get(0).hash + ' .hint').trigger('click');
});
});

Sorry to drag this up after so long but I used the below. Any disadvantages? See the open function...
$("#popup").dialog(
{
height: 670,
width: 680,
modal: true,
autoOpen: false,
close: function(event, ui) { $('#wrap').show(); },
open: function(event, ui)
{
$('.ui-widget-overlay').bind('click', function()
{
$("#popup").dialog('close');
});
}
});

Forget using another plugin:
Here are 3 methods to close a jquery UI dialog when clicking outside popin:
If the dialog is modal/has background overlay: http://jsfiddle.net/jasonday/6FGqN/
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery("#dialog").dialog({
bgiframe: true,
autoOpen: false,
height: 100,
modal: true,
open: function(){
jQuery('.ui-widget-overlay').bind('click',function(){
jQuery('#dialog').dialog('close');
})
}
});
});
If dialog is non-modal Method 1: method 1: http://jsfiddle.net/jasonday/xpkFf/
// Close Pop-in If the user clicks anywhere else on the page
jQuery('body')
.bind(
'click',
function(e){
if(
jQuery('#dialog').dialog('isOpen')
&& !jQuery(e.target).is('.ui-dialog, a')
&& !jQuery(e.target).closest('.ui-dialog').length
){
jQuery('#dialog').dialog('close');
}
}
);
Non-Modal dialog Method 2: http://jsfiddle.net/jasonday/eccKr/
$(function() {
$( "#dialog" ).dialog({
autoOpen: false,
minHeight: 100,
width: 342,
draggable: true,
resizable: false,
modal: false,
closeText: 'Close',
open: function() {
closedialog = 1;
$(document).bind('click', overlayclickclose);
},
focus: function() {
closedialog = 0;
},
close: function() {
$(document).unbind('click');
}
});
$('#linkID').click(function() {
$('#dialog').dialog('open');
closedialog = 0;
});
var closedialog;
function overlayclickclose() {
if (closedialog) {
$('#dialog').dialog('close');
}
//set to one because click on dialog box sets to zero
closedialog = 1;
}
});

Check out the jQuery Outside Events plugin
Lets you do:
$field_hint.bind('clickoutside',function(){
$field_hint.dialog('close');
});

Just add this global script, which closes all the modal dialogs just clicking outsite them.
$(document).ready(function()
{
$(document.body).on("click", ".ui-widget-overlay", function()
{
$.each($(".ui-dialog"), function()
{
var $dialog;
$dialog = $(this).children(".ui-dialog-content");
if($dialog.dialog("option", "modal"))
{
$dialog.dialog("close");
}
});
});;
});

$(".ui-widget-overlay").click (function () {
$("#dialog-id").dialog( "close" );
});
Fiddle showing the above code in action.

I had to do two parts. First the outside click-handler:
$(document).on('click', function(e){
if ($(".ui-dialog").length) {
if (!$(e.target).parents().filter('.ui-dialog').length) {
$('.ui-dialog-content').dialog('close');
}
}
});
This calls dialog('close') on the generic ui-dialog-content class, and so will close all dialogs if the click didn't originate in one. It will work with modal dialogs too, since the overlay is not part of the .ui-dialog box.
The problem is:
Most dialogs are created because of clicks outside of a dialog
This handler runs after those clicks have created a dialog and bubbled up to the document, so it immediately closes them.
To fix this, I had to add stopPropagation to those click handlers:
moreLink.on('click', function (e) {
listBox.dialog();
e.stopPropagation(); //Don't trigger the outside click handler
});

This question is a bit old, but in case someone wants to close a dialog that is NOT modal when user clicks somewhere, you can use this that I took from the JQuery UI Multiselect plugin. The main advantage is that the click is not "lost" (if user wants to click on a link or a button, the action is done).
$myselector.dialog({
title: "Dialog that closes when user clicks outside",
modal:false,
close: function(){
$(document).off('mousedown.mydialog');
},
open: function(event, ui) {
var $dialog = $(this).dialog('widget');
$(document).on('mousedown.mydialog', function(e) {
// Close when user clicks elsewhere
if($dialog.dialog('isOpen') && !$.contains($myselector.dialog('widget')[0], e.target)){
$myselector.dialog('close');
}
});
}
});

You can do this without using any additional plug-in
var $dialog= $(document.createElement("div")).appendTo(document.body);
var dialogOverlay;
$dialog.dialog({
title: "Your title",
modal: true,
resizable: true,
draggable: false,
autoOpen: false,
width: "auto",
show: "fade",
hide: "fade",
open:function(){
$dialog.dialog('widget').animate({
width: "+=300",
left: "-=150"
});
//get the last overlay in the dom
$dialogOverlay = $(".ui-widget-overlay").last();
//remove any event handler bound to it.
$dialogOverlay.unbind();
$dialogOverlay.click(function(){
//close the dialog whenever the overlay is clicked.
$dialog.dialog("close");
});
}
});
Here $dialog is the dialog.
What we are basically doing is to get the last overlay widget whenever this dialog is opened and binding a click handler to that overlay to close $dialog as anytime the overlay is clicked.

no need for the outside events plugin...
just add an event handler to the .ui-widget-overlay div:
jQuery(document).on('click', 'body > .ui-widget-overlay', function(){
jQuery("#ui-dialog-selector-goes-here").dialog("close");
return false;
});
just make sure that whatever selector you used for the jQuery ui dialog, is also called to close it.. i.e. #ui-dialog-selector-goes-here

This doesn't use jQuery UI, but does use jQuery, and may be useful for those who aren't using jQuery UI for whatever reason. Do it like so:
function showDialog(){
$('#dialog').show();
$('*').on('click',function(e){
$('#zoomer').hide();
});
}
$(document).ready(function(){
showDialog();
});
So, once I've shown a dialog, I add a click handler that only looks for the first click on anything.
Now, it would be nicer if I could get it to ignore clicks on anything on #dialog and its contents, but when I tried switching $('*') with $(':not("#dialog,#dialog *")'), it still detected #dialog clicks.
Anyway, I was using this purely for a photo lightbox, so it worked okay for that purpose.

The given example(s) use one dialog with id '#dialog', i needed a solution that close any dialog:
$.extend($.ui.dialog.prototype.options, {
modal: true,
open: function(object) {
jQuery('.ui-widget-overlay').bind('click', function() {
var id = jQuery(object.target).attr('id');
jQuery('#'+id).dialog('close');
})
}
});
Thanks to my colleague Youri Arkesteijn for the suggestion of using prototype.

This is the only method that worked for me for my NON-MODAL dialog
$(document).mousedown(function(e) {
var clicked = $(e.target); // get the element clicked
if (clicked.is('#dlg') || clicked.parents().is('#dlg') || clicked.is('.ui-dialog-titlebar')) {
return; // click happened within the dialog, do nothing here
} else { // click was outside the dialog, so close it
$('#dlg').dialog("close");
}
});
All credit goes to Axle
Click outside non-modal dialog to close

For those you are interested I've created a generic plugin that enables to close a dialog when clicking outside of it whether it a modal or non-modal dialog. It supports one or multiple dialogs on the same page.
More information here: http://www.coheractio.com/blog/closing-jquery-ui-dialog-widget-when-clicking-outside
Laurent

I use this solution based in one posted here:
var g_divOpenDialog = null;
function _openDlg(l_d) {
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2554779/jquery-ui-close-dialog-when-clicked-outside
jQuery('body').bind(
'click',
function(e){
if(
g_divOpenDialog!=null
&& !jQuery(e.target).is('.ui-dialog, a')
&& !jQuery(e.target).closest('.ui-dialog').length
){
_closeDlg();
}
}
);
setTimeout(function() {
g_divOpenDialog = l_d;
g_divOpenDialog.dialog();
}, 500);
}
function _closeDlg() {
jQuery('body').unbind('click');
g_divOpenDialog.dialog('close');
g_divOpenDialog.dialog('destroy');
g_divOpenDialog = null;
}

I had same problem while making preview modal on one page. After a lot of googling I found this very useful solution. With event and target it is checking where click happened and depending on it triggers the action or does nothing.
Code Snippet Library site
$('#modal-background').mousedown(function(e) {
var clicked = $(e.target);
if (clicked.is('#modal-content') || clicked.parents().is('#modal-content'))
return;
} else {
$('#modal-background').hide();
}
});

İt's simple actually you don't need any plugins, just jquery or you can do it with simple javascript.
$('#dialog').on('click', function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
});
$(document.body).on('click', function(e){
master.hide();
});

I don't think finding dialog stuff using $('.any-selector') from the whole DOM is so bright.
Try
$('<div />').dialog({
open: function(event, ui){
var ins = $(this).dialog('instance');
var overlay = ins.overlay;
overlay.off('click').on('click', {$dialog: $(this)}, function(event){
event.data.$dialog.dialog('close');
});
}
});
You're really getting the overlay from the dialog instance it belongs to, things will never go wrong this way.

With the following code, you can simulate a click on the 'close' button of the dialog (change the string 'MY_DIALOG' for the name of your own dialog)
$("div[aria-labelledby='ui-dialog-title-MY_DIALOG'] div.ui-helper-clearfix a.ui-dialog-titlebar-close")[0].click();

Smart Code:
I am using following code so that every thing remains clear and readable.
out side body will close the dialog box.
$(document).ready(function () {
$('body').on('click', '.ui-widget-overlay', closeDialogBox);
});
function closeDialogBox() {
$('#dialog-message').dialog('close');
}

I ended up using this code which should work on any open dialogs on the page, ignores clicks on tooltips, and cleans up the resources of the dialog being closed as well.
$(document).mousedown(function(e) {
var clicked = $(e.target); // get the element clicked
if (clicked.is('.ui-dialog-content, .ui-dialog-titlebar, .ui-tooltip') || clicked.parents().is('.ui-dialog-content, .ui-dialog-titlebar, .ui-tooltip')) {
return; // click happened within the dialog, do nothing here
} else { // click was outside the dialog, so close it
$('.ui-dialog-content').dialog("close");
$('.ui-dialog-content').dialog("destroy");
$('.ui-dialog-content').detach();
}
});

I just ran across the need to close .dialog(s) with an out of element click. I have a page with a lot of info dialogs, so I needed something to handle them all. This is how I handled it:
$(document).ready(function () {
$(window).click(function (e) {
$(".dialogGroup").each(function () {
$(this).dialog('close');
})
});
$("#lostEffClick").click(function () {
event.stopPropagation();
$("#lostEffDialog").dialog("open");
};
});