jquery ui Dialog cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization

Question

I have an app on jquery 1 5 with dialogs worked fine  While I have a lot of  live handlers  I changed this to  on  For that  I have to update jquery  now 1 8 3 an jquerui 1 9 1    Now  I got  Error  cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization  attempted to call method  close   Following is the code   Javascript  var opt             autoOpen  false          modal  true          width  550          height 650          title   Details        document  ready function         divDialog   dialog opt           divDialog   dialog  open              html code   lt div id  divDialog  gt   lt div id  divInDialog  gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt    Any idea why this might be happening

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Try this instead    document  ready function           divDialog   dialog opt  dialog  open          You can also do   var theDialog       divDialog   dialog opt   theDialog dialog  open      That s because the dialog is not stored in     divDialog    but on a new div that is created on the fly and returned by the  dialog opt  function

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I got this error message because I had the div tag on the partial view instead of the parent view

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This is also some work around      div aria-describedby  divDialog    ui-button ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-button-icon-only ui-dialog-titlebar-close   click

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If you cannot upgrade jQuery and you are getting   Uncaught Error  cannot call methods on dialog prior to initialization  attempted to call method  close    You can work around it like so     selector  closest   ui-dialog-content   dialog  close      Or if you control the view and know no other dialogs should be in use at all on the entire page  you could do       ui-dialog-content   dialog  close      I would only recommend doing this if using closest causes a performance issue  There are likely other ways to work around it without doing a global close on all dialogs

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My case is different  it fails because of the scope of  this      this fails      My-Dialog   dialog           close      gt         this  dialog  close               this works      My-Dialog   dialog           close  function          this  dialog  close

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The new jQuery UI version will not allow you to call UI methods on dialog which is not initialized  As a workaround  you can use the below check to see if the dialog is alive   if  modalDialogObj hasClass  ui-dialog-content             call UI methods like modalDialogObj dialog  isOpen     else          it is not initialized yet

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So you use this   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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If you want to open the Dialog immediately when the Dialog is initialized or the page is ready  you can also set the parameter autoOpen to true in the options object of dialog   var opt             autoOpen  true          modal  true          width  550          height 650          title   Details       Thus  you do not have to call the      divDialog   dialog  open      When dialog object is initialized  the dialog is automatically opened

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I got this error when I only updated the jquery library without updating the jqueryui library in parallel  I was using jquery 1 8 3 with jqueryui 1 9 0  However  when I updated jquery 1 8 3 to 1 9 1 I got the above error  When I commented out the offending  close method lines  it then threw an error about not finding  browser in the jquery library which was deprecated in jquery 1 8 3 and removed from jquery 1 9 1  So bascially  the jquery 1 9 1 library was not compatible with the jquery ui 1 9 0 library despite the jquery ui download page saying it works with jquery 1 6   Essentially  there are unreported bugs when trying to use differing versions of the two  If you use the jquery version that comes bundled with the jqueryui download  I m sure you ll be fine  but it s when you start using different versions that you off the beaten path and get errors like this  So  in summary  this error is from mis-matched versions  in my case anyway

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I simply had to add the ScriptManager to the page   Issue resolved

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In my case the problem was that I had called     divDialog   removeData    as part of resetting my forms data within the dialog   This resulted in me wiping out a data structure named uiDialog which meant that the dialog had to reinitialize   I replaced  removeData   with more specific deletes and everything started working again

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