How to bind Jquery dialog buttons to a knockout viewmodel

Question

What I\'d like to do is make a dialog where the buttons are databound to the knockout viewmodel so I can enable or disable those buttons depending on various conditions on the

Answer 1

To add on to Andrew's answer, since the data-bind attribute is just another attribute you can add to your buttons, this would also work:

$("#dialog").dialog({
    buttons: [{
        text: 'Ok',
        'data-bind': 'visible: name().length'
    }]
});