jquery-dialog

I want to be able to create modal dialogs, with, for example close: function() { $(this).remove(); } default option, without need to specify those on dialog creation, but somehow override those parameters on one place. Is this possible? I, too, needed to override default options and took me a while to figure out for jQuery UI 1.8: $.extend($.ui.dialog.prototype.options, { modal: true, resizable: false, draggable: false }); The above code will allow you to drop anything on top of the dialog options. The above method should work for most UI components (it will also let you prototype over the

I have tried following code, but it only positions dialogs left upper corner position to center, and that makes element to be aligned to right. How can I center dialog to real center which counts elements width, so that center line will cut dialog to 50% 50% halfs? $('.selector').dialog({ position: 'center' }); http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Dialog#option-position Luke Duddridge I'm pretty sure you shouldn't need to set a position: $("#dialog").dialog(); should center by default . I did have a look at the article, and also checked what it says on the official jquery-ui site about positioning a