Part of a form put into a dialog no longer submits

Part of a form put into a dialog no longer submits


I have a form that has some content hidden in a DIV that is not
displayed since it is not used often (to reduce clutter). Previously I
had written my own code to bring this DIV into appearance in a
floating box and when editing the input values they all submitted just
fine when the rest of the form was submitted. After attaching a jQuery
dialog to the DIV the form no longer submits with the values entered.
In fact, it is as if the jQuery dialog has yanked the elements out of
the scope of the <form> tags entirely. If I look at the raw code I can
still see it there.
What is going on here? Any way to fix it?