SOLVED: Confusion about displaying dialogs from within tabs
(I have tightened up my original example)
I'm trying to invoke modal dialogs from within a tabbed UI, and I'm confused about the behavior I'm seeing. The first time I display the UI, my dialog behaves as expected, I can pull the data out of the fields, everything's wonderful.
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Tabtest 2</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="js/css/smoothness/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css" media="screen"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function()
{
var tabs = $('#tabs').tabs({
load: function(event, ui)
{
initializeUI();
}
});
});
function initializeUI()
{
jQuery("#button1").click(function()
{
$(initializeUI.win).dialog("open");
});
$(initializeUI.win) = jQuery("#window1");
//instantiate the dialog
$(initializeUI.win).dialog({ height: 350,
width: 400,
modal: true,
position: 'center',
autoOpen:false,
title:'Create Agent',
overlay: { opacity: 0.5, background: 'black'},
buttons:
{
"Check Text 1": function()
{
var t1 = $("#text1");
alert("text 1 = " + t1.val());
},
"Close": function()
{
$(initializeUI.win).dialog("close");
}
}
});
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<li><a href="tab1.html">Tab1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://google.com">Google</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
and tab1.html:
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Tab 1</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<button id="button1" class="ui-button ui-state-default ui-corner-all">Button 1</button>
<div id="window1" style="display:none">
<form>
<fieldset>
<label for="text1">Text 1</label>
<input type="text" name="text1" id="text1" class="text ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
This allows the dialog to (apparently) work on repeated tab selections, but when I try to change the contents of the text field and examine it, I get the old value (the value from the first invocation)!! It's as if I have created a new copy of the dialog and it's fields, but the original text field is sitting there unseen in the original dialog window, returning it's old results.
Obviously, there's a paradigm for handling these dialogs, divs and tabs that I haven't grasped yet. Anyone care to point out my errors?
Much thanks in advance.