jQuery Dialog-Postback but UpdatePanel doesn't get updated

Question

i want to show a jQuery UI Dialog from Codebehind and need to refresh it after postbacks.

The dialog is a control to filter and find data. So the user selects from

Answer 1

Here is how I solved the same issue. It removes any old dialogs and adds the newly updated one back to the form so the postbacks work. I put the following code in a script block that gets added to the page via ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript in the code behind.

$('#divMyDialogAdded').remove();

$('#divMyDialog').dialog({
    autoOpen: false,
    modal: true
}).parent().appendTo('form:first');

$('#divMyDialog').attr('id', 'divMyDialogAdded');