I have been experimenting with this for a couple of hours and I remain confused.
I am attempting to open a JQuery UI dialog (modal) when a link ([a] tag) is clicked, getting the content of the dialog window from the href of the link.
So far I have (gleaned from various places) where testb.html is a simple html fragment:
<div><p>Some text</p><p>more text</p</div>
The idea is that when anchor (link) is click the content of testb.html appears in the dialog.
Why doesn't this work???
David (70-year-old pre-Alzheimers ex-programmer with little HTML experience)s
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>jQuery test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.13.0/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.13.0/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script>
$("a.modal").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$(".container").load(this.href).dialog("open");
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container"></div>
<p><a href="testb.html" class="modal">Click!</a></p>
</body>
</html>you can use this code:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.13.0/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<p><a href="javascript:void(0)" data-get="testb.html" class="modal">Click!</a></p>
</div>
<div id="dialog" title="Basic dialog"></div>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.13.0/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script>
$('.modal').on('click', function () {
var data = $(this).attr('data-get')
$('#dialog').html(data)
$("#dialog").dialog()
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Combining bits from the previous answers, I got this, which works!
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Title</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.13.0/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.13.0/jquery-ui.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p><a href="testb.html" class="modal">Click!</a></p>
<div id="dialog" title="Basic dialog"></div>
<script>
$('.modal').on('click', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
$('#dialog').load(this.href)
$("#dialog").dialog()
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
With codeangler's answer, the dialog appeared,but didn't have the content of testb.html, instead had the content of the div. With mplungjan's answer... Well, I couldn't get it to work. With Sepehr Pourjozi's answer, the dialog appeared but contained the literal text "testb.html", not the content of testb.html.
Taking hints from all three answers, I got it to work. And now I understand JQuery dialogs a little bit better.
Thanks, all.
David
You run the assignment before the element exists on the page. Wrap it in a load handler
$(function() { // on page load
$("a.modal").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$(".container").load(this.href)
});
})
You cannot open the container as a dialog the way you try it. You need something like
$(function() { // on page load
$(".container").dialog({
autoOpen: false,
width: 750,
modal: true
});
$("a.modal").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$(".container").load(this.href)
$(".container").dialog('open');
});
})