[jquery-ui] How to completely remove a dialog on close

When an ajax operation fails, I create a new div with the errors and then show it as a dialog. When the dialog is closed I would like to completely destroy and remove the div again. How can I do this? My code looks something like this at the moment:

$('<div>We failed</div>')
    .dialog(
    {
        title: 'Error',
        close: function(event, ui)
        {
            $(this).destroy().remove();
        }
    });

When I run this the dialog box shows up correctly, but when I close it the dialog is still visible in the html (using FireBug). What am I missing here? Something I have forgotten?

Update: Just noticed my code gives me an error in the firebug console.

$(this).destroy is not a function

Anyone able to help me out?

Update: If I do just $(this).remove() instead, the item is removed from the html. But is it completely removed from the DOM? Or do I somehow need to call that destroy function first as well?

Why do you want to remove it?

If it is to prevent multiple instances being created, then just use the following approach...

$('#myDialog') 
    .dialog( 
    { 
        title: 'Error', 
        close: function(event, ui) 
        { 
            $(this).dialog('close');
        } 
    }); 

And when the error occurs, you would do...

$('#myDialog').html("Ooops.");
$('#myDialog').dialog('open');

You can do use

$(dialogElement).empty();    
$(dialogElement).remove();

$(dialogElement).empty();

$(dialogElement).remove();

this fixes it for real

This is worked for me

$('<div>We failed</div>')
    .dialog(
    {
        title: 'Error',
        close: function(event, ui)
        {
            $(this).dialog("close");
            $(this).remove();
        }
    });

Cheers!

PS: I had a somewhat similar problem and the above approach solved it.

An ugly solution that works like a charm for me:

$("#mydialog").dialog(
    open: function(){
        $('div.ui-widget-overlay').hide();
        $("div.ui-dialog").not(':first').remove();
}
});

I use this function in all my js projects

You call it: hideAndResetModals("#IdModalDialog")

You define if:

function hideAndResetModals(modalID)
{
    $(modalID).modal('hide');
    clearValidation(modalID); //You implement it if you need it. If not, you can remote this line
    $(modalID).on('hidden.bs.modal', function () 
    {
        $(modalID).find('form').trigger('reset');  
    });
}