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

Asked 17/3, 2013 at 9:6 Answered 12/5, 2022 at 20:9

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 later add the URL dynamically so all links from my site will be displayed in said window.

I tried the following, but the dialog window is empty when clicking on the link.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Test</title>


<meta charset="utf-8" />
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.1/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" />
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
  <script>
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#openwindow').each(function() {
        var $link = $(this);
        var $dialog = $('<div></div>')
            .load($link.attr('href'))
            .dialog({
                autoOpen: false,
                title: $link.attr('title'),
                width: 500,
                height: 300
            });

        $link.click(function() {
            $dialog.dialog('open');

            return false;
        });
    });
});
  </script>

</head>
<body>
<a id="openwindow" href="http://www.google.com">Click me to test.</a>
</body>
</html>

I found a few examples, but none actually worked. I'd really appreciate some help.

Thanks in advance.

Condescending answered 17/3, 2013 at 9:6 Comment(1)

basically you want an ajax call is it? – Metzler 17/3, 2013 at 9:27

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.

Cioffi answered 17/3, 2013 at 9:16 Comment(1)

You can't use .load() if the URL is in another domain, because of cross-domain AJAX restrictions. – Bickerstaff 13/12, 2013 at 6:33

You may try this

$(function(){
    $('a').on('click', function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
        $('<div/>', {'class':'myDlgClass', 'id':'link-'+($(this).index()+1)})
        .load($(this).attr('href')).appendTo('body').dialog();
    });
});

Above code will create a new dialog on clicking on any link on your page and also add a class name myDlgClass and an unique id for each dialog like link-1, link-2 and so on, but remember that only page link will be loaded not external link because of same origin policy.

Update :

To use an external site link you can use an iframe, here is an example using iframe.

Standridge answered 17/3, 2013 at 9:37 Comment(0)

This might help.. Here what i am doing is i am hovering on a link and the url is opening in a dialog box.. You should use class instead of id if multiple same tags are getting created dynamically..ohterwise it will work for only single id.

$('.openwindow').click(function(){
var $this=$(this);
         $.ajax({
                url: $this.attr('href');//You got the link here
                success: function(data) {
                    //show the dialog here..
                    //"data" contains the html returned by the url
                },
                error: function(jqXHR){
                    //Do something here
                }
              });
        });

Metzler answered 17/3, 2013 at 9:34 Comment(0)

You can use iframe:

 $("#iframeId").attr("src", $(this).attr("href"));
 $('#dialogId').dialog('open');

<div id="divId" >
    <IFRAME id="iframeId"  SRC="" width="" height = "" >
</div>

Waxler answered 17/3, 2013 at 9:10 Comment(0)

I know this is old, but none of the above suggestions worked for me. After much investigation, I found this very simple solution. Add a link object to the document, set the href param on it, and click it, programmatically. No iframe, no dialog, just the download. I needed to fetch a signed S3 url based on user action on the page and provide for the download of the file. I wasn't allowed to populate the page with signatures that would last a long time. Here is my ajax:

$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: actionUrl,
    complete: function(data) {
        var signedS3url = data.responseText;
        var link=document.createElement('a');
        document.body.appendChild(link);
        link.href=signedS3url;
        link.click();                               
    }
});

Penitential answered 12/5, 2022 at 20:9 Comment(0)

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