[javascript] jQuery UI Dialog - missing close icon

I'm using a custom jQuery 1.10.3 theme. I downloaded every straight from the theme roller and I have intentionally not changed anything.

I created a dialog box and I get an empty gray square where the close icon should be:

I compared the code that is generated on my page:

<div class="ui-dialog-titlebar ui-widget-header ui-corner-all ui-helper-clearfix">
    <spanid="ui-id-2" class="ui-dialog-title">Title</span>
    <button class="ui-dialog-titlebar-close"></button>
</div>

To the code generated on the Dialog Demo page:

<div class="ui-dialog-titlebar ui-widget-header ui-corner-all ui-helper-clearfix">
    <span id="ui-id-1" class="ui-dialog-title">Basic dialog</span>
    <button class="ui-button ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-button-icon-only ui-dialog-titlebar-close" role="button" aria-disabled="false" title="close">
        <span class="ui-button-icon-primary ui-icon ui-icon-closethick"></span>
        <span class="ui-button-text">close</span>
    </button>
</div>

EDIT

The different parts of the code are generated by jQueryUI, not me so I can't just add the span tags without editing the jqueryui js file which seems like a bad/unnecessary choice to achieve normal functionality.

Here is the JavaScript used that generates that part of the code:

this.element.dialog({
    appendTo: "#summary_container",
    title: this.title(),
    closeText: "Close",
    width: this.width,
    position: {
        my: "center top",
        at: ("center top+"+(window.innerHeight*.1)),
        collision: "none"
    },
    modal: false,
    resizable: false,
    draggable: false,
    show: "fold",
    hide: "fold",
    close: function(){
        if(KOVM.areaSummary.isVisible()){
            KOVM.areaSummary.isVisible(false);
        }
    }
});

I'm at a loss and need help.

I'm using jQuery UI 1.8.17 and I had this same issue, plus I had additional css stylesheets being applied to things on the page, including the titlebar color. So to avoid any other issues, I targeted the exact ui elements using the code below:

$("#mydialog").dialog('widget').find(".ui-dialog-titlebar-close").hide();    
$("#mydialog").dialog('widget').find('.ui-icon ui-icon-closethick').hide();

Then I added a close button in the properties of the dialog itself: ...

modal : true,
title: "My Dialog",
buttons: [{text: "Close", click: function() {$(this).dialog("close")}}],
...

For some reason I had to target both items, but it works!

I got stuck with the same problem and after read and try all the suggestions above I just tried to replace manually this image (which you can find it here) in the CSS after downloaded it and saved in the images folder on my app and voilá, problem solved!

here is the CSS:

.ui-state-default .ui-icon {
        background-image: url("../img/ui-icons_888888_256x240.png");
}

If you are calling the dialog() inside the js function, you can use the below bootstrap button conflict codes

 <div class="row">
   <div class="col-md-12">
       <input type="button" onclick="ShowDialog()"  value="Open Dialog" id="btnDialog"/>
   </div>
</div>

<div style="display:none;" id="divMessage">
    <table class="table table-bordered">
        <tr>
            <th>Firstname</th>
            <th>Lastname</th>
            <th>Age</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Giri</td>
            <td>Prasad</td>
            <td>25</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td>Bala</td>
            <td>Kumar</td>
            <td>24</td>
        </tr>
    </table> 
</div>



<script type="text/javascript">
    function ShowDialog()
    {
        if (typeof $.fn.bootstrapBtn =='undefined') {
            $.fn.bootstrapBtn = $.fn.button.noConflict();
        }

        $('#divMessage').dialog({
            title:'Employee Info',
            modal:true
        });
    }
    </script>

This is a comment on the top answer, but I felt it was worth its own answer because it helped me answer the problem.

If you want to keep Bootstrap declared after JQuery UI (I did because I wanted to use the Bootstrap tooltip), declaring the following (I declared it after $(document).ready) will allow the button to appear again (answer from https://stackoverflow.com/a/23428433/4660870)

var bootstrapButton = $.fn.button.noConflict() // return $.fn.button to previously assigned value
$.fn.bootstrapBtn = bootstrapButton            // give $().bootstrapBtn the Bootstrap functionality

I am having this issue as well. Here is the code that is getting inserted for the close button:

When I turn off the style="display:none:" on the button, then the close button appears. So for some reason that display:none; is getting set, and I don't see how to control that. So another way to address this might be to simply override the display:none. Don't see how to do that though.

I note that the answer posted by KyleMit does work, but makes a different looking X button.

I also note that this issue does not affect all dialogs on my pages, but just some of them. Some dialogs work as expected; other have no title (ie, the span containing the title is empty) while the close button is present.

I am thinking something is seriously wrong and it might not the time for 1.10.x.

But after further work, I discovered that in some cases the titles were not getting set properly, and after fixing that, the X close button reappeared as it should be.

I used to set the titles like this:

('#ui-dialog-title-ac-popup').text('Add Admin Comments for #' + $ac_userid);

That id does not exist in my code, but is created apparently by jquery from ac-popup and ui-dialog-title. Kind of a kludge. But as I said that no longer works, and I have to use the following instead:

$('.ui-dialog-title').text('Add Admin Comments for #' + $ac_userid);

After doing that, the missing button issue seems to be better, although I am not sure if they are definitely related.

Just add in the missing:

<span class="ui-button-icon-primary ui-icon ui-icon-closethick"></span>
<span class="ui-button-text">close</span>

I found three fixes:

1. You can just load bootsrap first. And them load jquery-ui. But it is not good idea. Because you will see errors in console.

2. This:

   var bootstrapButton = $.fn.button.noConflict();
   $.fn.bootstrapBtn = bootstrapButton;
   

   helps. But other buttons look terrible. And now we don't have bootstrap buttons.

3. I just want to use bootsrap styles and also I want to have close button with an icon. I've done following:

   How close button looks after fix

   .ui-dialog-titlebar-close {
       padding:0 !important;
   }
   
   .ui-dialog-titlebar-close:after {
       content: '';
       width: 20px;
       height: 20px;
       display: inline-block;
       /* Change path to image*/
       background-image: url(themes/base/images/ui-icons_777777_256x240.png);
       background-position: -96px -128px;
       background-repeat: no-repeat;
   }
   

A wise man once helped me.

In the folder where jquery-ui.css is located, create a folder named "images" and copy the below files into it:

ui-icons_444444_256x240.png

ui-icons_555555_256x240.png

ui-icons_777620_256x240.png

ui-icons_777777_256x240.png

ui-icons_cc0000_256x240.png

ui-icons_ffffff_256x240.png

and the close icon appears.

  just add in css
 .ui-icon-closethick{
 margin-top: -8px!important;
margin-left: -8px!important;

}

I had the same exact issue, Maybe you already chececked this but got it solved just by placing the "images" folder in the same location as the jquery-ui.css

This is reported as broken in 1.10

http://blog.jqueryui.com/2013/01/jquery-ui-1-10-0/

phillip on January 29, 2013 at 7:36 am said: In the CDN versions, the dialog close button is missing. There’s only the button tag, the span ui-icon is missong.

I downloaded the previous version and the X for the close button shows back up.

I know this question is old but I just had this issue with jquery-ui v1.12.0.

Short Answer Make sure you have a folder called Images in the same place you have jquery-ui.min.css. The images folder must contains the images found with a fresh download of the jquery-ui

Long answer

My issue is that I am using gulp to merge all of my css files into a single file. When I do that, I am changing the location of the jquery-ui.min.css. The css code for the dialog expects a folder called Images in the same directory and inside this folder it expects default icons. since gulp was not copying the images into the new destination it was not showing the x icon.

Even loading bootstrap after jquery-ui, I was able to fix using this:

.ui-dialog-titlebar-close:after {
   content: 'X' !important;
   position: absolute;
   top: -2px;
   right: 3px;
}

I was facing same issue , In my case JQuery-ui.js version was 1.10.3, After referring jquery-ui-1.12.1.min.js close button started to visible.

As a reference, this is how I extended the open method as per @john-macintyre's suggestion:

$.widget( "ui.dialog", $.ui.dialog, {_x000D_
 open: function() {_x000D_
  $(this.uiDialogTitlebarClose)_x000D_
   .html("<span class='ui-button-icon-primary ui-icon ui-icon-closethick'></span><span class='ui-button-text'>close</span>");_x000D_
  // Invoke the parent widget's open()._x000D_
  return this._super();_x000D_
 }_x000D_
});

This appears to be a bug in the way jQuery ships. You can fix it manually with some dom manipulation on the Dialog Open event:

$("#selector").dialog({
    open: function() {
        $(this).closest(".ui-dialog")
        .find(".ui-dialog-titlebar-close")
        .removeClass("ui-dialog-titlebar-close")
        .html("<span class='ui-button-icon-primary ui-icon ui-icon-closethick'></span>");
    }
});