jquery UI dialog: how to initialize without a title bar?

Question

Is it possible to open a jQuery UI Dialog without a title bar?

Answer 1

If you have multiple dialog, you can use this:

$("#the_dialog").dialog({
        open: function(event, ui) { 
            //hide titlebar.
            $(this).parent().children('.ui-dialog-titlebar').hide();
        }
    });

Answer 2

For me, I still wanted to use the re-sizable corners, just didn't want so see the diagonal lines. I used

$(".ui-resizable-handle").css("opacity","0");

Just realized I was commenting on the wrong question. Living up to my namesake :(

Answer 3

You could remove the bar with the close icon with the techinques described above and then add a close icon yourself.

CSS:

.CloseButton {
background: url('../icons/close-button.png');   
width:15px;
height:15px;
border: 0px solid white;
top:0;
right:0;
position:absolute;
cursor: pointer;
z-index:999;
}

HTML:

var closeDiv = document.createElement("div");
closeDiv.className = "CloseButton";

//append this div to the div holding your content

JS:

 $(closeDiv).click(function () {
         $("yourDialogContent").dialog('close');
     });

Answer 4

Try using

$("#mydialog").closest(".ui-dialog-titlebar").hide();

This will hide all dialogs titles

$(".ui-dialog-titlebar").hide();

Answer 5

I think that the best solution is to use the option dialogClass.

An extract from jquery UI docs:

during init : $('.selector').dialog({ dialogClass: 'noTitleStuff' });

or if you want after init. :

$('.selector').dialog('option', 'dialogClass', 'noTitleStuff');

So i created some dialog with option dialogClass='noTitleStuff' and the css like that:

.noTitleStuff .ui-dialog-titlebar {display:none}

too simple !! but i took 1 day to think why my previous id->class drilling method was not working. In fact when you call .dialog() method the div you transform become a child of another div (the real dialog div) and possibly a 'brother' of the titlebar div, so it's very difficult to try finding the latter starting from former.