Trent Jones

Ran into an issue using a jQuery.UI.Dialog control on an asp.net web form today.  When defining a dialog jQuery.UI takes the dialog and appends it right before the closing </body> tag.  This is outside of the <form> tag causing any values you wanted from the form to be empty in your code-behind.

Here is the fix that worked for me:

$('#dialog').parent().appendTo('/html/body/form[0]');

This works great and the dialog now displays as expected, capturing the results in the code behind except for I originally wanted the dialog wrapped in a UpdatePanel. In order to fix this issue, I created an empty div and appended the dialog content there:

$('#dialog').parent().appendTo('#dialog_target');

Not the results i expected. When the content refreshes the dialog is messed up. The answer was to move the content panel inside of the dialog with the user control doing all the work!!!

<div id="dialog" class="ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" title="Add New Client"></div>

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