How to open Modal pop up in JSF 2 using JQuery

Question

I have a requirement that in my JSF page there will be a commandButton, and on clicking that commandButton it will fire a action method which will perform some logic and bas

Answer 1

Here's a complete working example

I used display:none to hide the h:panelGroup dialog container cause the .dialog function will make it visible when its needed to be

You also can hide the real jsf command buttons and access it through dialog button with jquery # selector and invoke the .click on it like I did in the js file.

One last thing , used onclick="initDialog(); return false;" to call the dialog js function and added return false so the commandbutton wont try to navigate away...

By using the jQuery UI Dialog you will get maximum flexibility/control over your dialogs.

The example consists from 2 file (one .xhtml and one .js) ,

I used jQuery and jQueryUI , no need in any other plugins at all

index.xhtml

and scripts.js

function initDialog() {
 $("#idOfDialogPlaceHolder").dialog({
     modal: true,
     buttons: {
            SomeButton: function () {
                $("#justAButton").click();
            },
            Close: function () {
                $(this).dialog("close");
            }
     },
 });
}

That's it