Primefaces dialog with modal=true not working properly

Question

I am unable to achieve a (primefaces)dialog box with attribute modal=true. It works correctly with modal=false, but when I try to set modal=t

Answer 1

I have also struggled with strange behaviour until I moved the p:dialog into a separate h:form at which point the data in the dialog matched the row from the dataTable but the overlay was not hiding.

appendToBody=true solved the problem with the overlay. I still need to test dialogs with inputs and actions.