How do you open a URL in a dialog box JQUERY UI

Question

I\'ve been looking for a simple solution for quite some time. I want a page (for example http://www.google.com) to be displayed in a JQuery UI Dialog window. The plan is to

Answer 1

You don't need an iframe as has been suggested, but you should read the documentation on dialogs here.

Instead, you need to load the content on the .open property --

$( "#openwindow" ).dialog({
 open: function(event, ui) {
   $('#divInDialog').load('test.html', function() {
     alert('Load was performed.');
   });
  }
});

Also, you seem to use .each with an id -- the id is supposed to be unique within the page. use class instead.