There's currently no way to re-position a dialog through the dialog
API. This doesn't seem like an intuitive feature - the developer
should only set the opening position, and only the user should move it
afterward. You could manually calculate the position yourself and
just set the top and left style properties if you really want to do
this.
As for swapping out the HTML of the dialog while it's open, I can't
think of any real problems with doing that.
You can't pass parameters to the close callback/event, but you can use
closures to essentially do the same thing. If you need more info on
how to do that just reply to this thread again.
Hope that helps, let us know if you have any more questions or
problems. Also, there may be valid reasons for letting a developer
reposition the dialog that we're just not seeing. If you think there
are, you could try to persuade the UI team to add it as a feature.
On Dec 10, 5:57 pm, patrick davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a table with about 50 rows (more than a screen length anyway!)
> each row represents a distinct request.
>
> When I scroll over one of the cells in the row I am pulling the
> lengthy description of the request and displaying it in a modal
> dialog.
>
> <div id="descriptionDialog">
> <div id="descriptionDialogContent"></div>
> </div>
>
> The descriptionDialog is the dialog, and I empty and re-fill the
> descriptionDialogContent with each new request as it is hovered over.
> If there are better ways of doing this (which there almost certainly
> are!) please let me know!...
>
> Anyway ..that all works fine, the thing I can't quite get to work
> (nicely) is that as you scroll down the page the dialog doesn't
> recenter. So.. if you're looking at the 50th request - the dialog is
> showing the correct info - but you have to scroll back up to the top
> of the page to see it.
>
> If I close and re-open the dialog every time, then it will re-center
> down the page correctly, but that messes up other things and I'm sure
> there's a nicer way of doing it.
>
> So! My question :)
>
> 1) Is there a way to re-center an already open dialog within the
> currently viewable window, without having to close it and re-open it.
>
> 2) If not, can I pass parameters to my bound close function when I
> call it through $("#descriptionDialog").dialog('close');
>
> Thanks for any and all suggestions!
> Patrick
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