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.

Answer 1

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.