JQuery Error cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization attempted to call method close

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I am suddenly getting this error from jQuery       Error  cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization  attempted to call method  close    Plugins    lt script src    ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 1 9 1 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt    lt script src  http   code jquery com ui 1 9 1 jquery-ui js  gt  lt  script gt     jQuery code     I am getting those messages in the following function     document  ready function       if      results   html   length    0        alert  has information             dialog   dialog         modal  true        buttons            Ok  function                  If I use   this  dialog   this   dialog  close    the UI is displayed               however I do not see the OK button and no errors              this  dialog  close                                  else       alert  has no data              HTML   lt div id  dialog  title  Server Response  gt     lt p gt  lt span class    icon   style  float  left  margin  0 7px 50px 0   gt  lt  span gt       lt label id  results  gt   results  lt  label gt     lt  p gt         lt  div gt

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I got the same error in 1 10 2  In my case  I wanted to make clicking on the background overlay hide the currently visible dialog  regardless of which element it was based upon  Therefore I had this       body   on  click     ui-widget-overlay   function              ui-dialog   dialog  destroy          This used to be working  so I think they must have removed support in JQUI for calling  dialog   on the popup itself at some point   My workaround looks like this      body   on  click     ui-widget-overlay   function                      ui-dialog   attr  aria-describedby    dialog  destroy

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Is your   this  dialog  close   by any chance being called from inside an Ajax  success  callback  If so  try adding context  this as one of the options to your   ajax   call  like so       dialog   dialog       modal  true      buttons            Ok  function                   ajax                   url    path to request url                   context  this                  success  function data                                           Calls involving   this  will now reference                         your   dialog  element                           this  dialog   close

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Create a separate JavaScript function that can be called to close the dialog using the specific object id  and place the function outside of   document  ready   like this   function closeDialogWindow          dialogWindow   dialog  close        NOTE  The function must be declared outside of   document  ready   so jQuery doesn t try to trigger the close event on the dialog before it is created in the DOM

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I had a similar problem when opening a dialog with a partial layout in asp net MVC  I was loading the jquery library on the partial page as well as the main page which was causing this error to come up

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I stumbled over the same and wanted to share my solution    lt script type  text javascript  gt           dialog-confirm    dialog  option   buttons                                          delete   function                               ajax                               url   delete php                             done function msg                               here  this  is the ajax object                                                                      this  dialog   close                                                                              cancel   function                               here   this  is correctly the dialog object                           this  dialog   close                                                lt  script gt    because  this  is referencing to an non-dialog object  I got the error mentioned   Solution    lt script type  text javascript  gt      var theDialog        dialog-confirm    dialog  option   buttons                                          delete   function                               ajax                               url   delete php                             done function msg                                  theDialog  dialog   close                                                                              cancel   function                               this  dialog   close                                                lt  script gt

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i have same problem  i open several dialog my problem was what the content should be removed to prevent the form data stay with same data  then the dialog is created these paramters  var dialog       dummy-1         dialog html   lt div style  position absolute  top 15px  left 0px  right 0px  bottom 0px  text-align center   gt  lt img align  middle  src  cargando gif  gt  lt  div gt         dialog html mensaje       dialog dialog                title  Ventana de Confirmacion           width 400           height 200           modal true          resizable  false          draggable false          position    my   center center   at   center center   of  window            buttons                                          text   Eliminar                   click  function                         functionCall dialog var1 var2                                                                  text   Cerrar                   click  function                         dialog dialog  close                                                       close  function event  ui                        dialog dialog  close   dialog  destroy   remove                        and the dialog is passed as a parameter to the function to do action       function functionCall dialogFormulario var1 var2          same action          dialogFormulario dialog  close         Here it is necessary only to use  dialog  close   and no  dialog  destroy   because the dialog will call its function close  and the element will not exist

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I know this is very old  but I got the same issue when I had to navigate through an angular route and the dialog is open  it remained open  So I got a workaround to call the close method in the route controller destructor  But got this above mentioned error if the dialog was not open  So the answer is if you are closing the dialog prior to initialization it will through this error  To check if the dialog is open then close it wrap your close state in this condition   if     mydialog   dialog  isOpen        close dialog code

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I was getting this error message when trying to close the dialog by using a button inside the dialog body  I tried to use     myDialog   dialog  close    which did not work   I ended up firing the click action of the  x  button on the header using       modal-header first   find  button first   click

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I had a similar problem and in my case  the issue was different  I am using Django templates     The order of JS was different  I know that s the first thing you check but I was almost sure that that was not the case  but it was   The js calling the dialog was called before jqueryUI library was called   I am using Django  so was inheriting a template and using   super block   to inherit code from the block as well to the template  I had to move   super block   at the end of the block which solved the issue  The js calling the dialog was declared in the Media class in Django s admin py  I spent more than an hour to figure it out  Hope this helps someone

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So you use this   var opt             autoOpen  false          modal  true          width  550          height 650          title   Details      var theDialog       divDialog   dialog opt   theDialog dialog  open      and if you open a MVC Partial View in Dialog  you can create in index a hidden button and JQUERY click event       YourButton   click function        theDialog dialog  open       OR    theDialog dialog  close          then inside partial view html you call button trigger click like       YouButton   trigger  click     see ya

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I had a similar problem that I resolved by defining my button array outside of the dialog declaration   var buttonArray       buttonArray  Ok     function        this   dialog   close        Your options would become   modal  true  autoOpen  false  buttons  buttonArray

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Senguttuvan  your solution was the only thing that worked for me      function btnClose         nbsp  nbsp     ui-dialog-titlebar-close   trigger  click

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Looks like your buttons are not declared correctly  according to the latest jQuery UI documentation anyway      try the following        selector    dialog       buttons            text   Ok          click  function                  this   dialog   close

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I had this problem once before where one dialog box was throwing this error  while all the others were working perfectly  The answer was because I had another element with the same id  dialogBox  else ware on the page  I found this thread during a search  so hopefully this will help someone else

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Try this - it works for me       editDialog   on  click   function  e        var url     this  attr  href            dialog-edit   dialog           title   Edit Office           autoOpen  false          resizable  false          height  450          width  380          show    effect   drop   direction   up             modal  true          draggable  true          open  function  event  ui                  this  load url                      close  function  event  ui                    dialog-edit   dialog   dialog  close                               dialog-edit   dialog  open        return false        Hope it will help you

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Im also got the same Error  cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization  attempted to call method  close   what i did is i triggered the close button event which is in the dialog header like   this is working fine for me to close the dialog  function btnClose         ui-dialog-titlebar-close   trigger  click

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After an hour  i found best approach  we should save result of dialog in variable  after that call close method of variable   Like this   var dd      divDialog    dialog      height  600     width  600     modal  true     draggable  false     resizable  false                dd dialog  close

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You may want to declare the button content outside of the dialog  this works for me   var closeFunction   function            dialog  dialog   close             dialog   dialog       modal  true      buttons            Ok  closeFunction

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it seems for some reason jQuery UI will try to run all code defined in buttons at definition time  It is crazy but I had the same issue and it stoped once I made this change    if    this  dialog isOpen     true           this  dialog  close

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This happened for me when my ajax was replacing contents on the page and ending up with two elements the same class for the dialog which meant when my line to close the dialog executed based on the CSS class selector  it found two elements not one and the second one had never been initialised       dialogClass   dialog  close      This line was expecting to find one element but found two where the second had not been initialised    For anyone on ASP NET MVC this occured because my controller action was returning a full view including the shared layout page which had the element when it should have been returning a partial view since the javascript was replacing only the main content area

[javascript] JQuery Error: cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'close'

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