create dialog without id in jquery

Question

I have a query regarding jquery that i want to create a dialog open and then fill some values in it. As i have tried to create a dialog using jquery it uses old values because that div already exists on that page. So i want to create an object of the dialog using jquery and then fill fields in it. I am using jsmarty and jquery together. Thanks

Answer 1

You can just do something like this...

var jDialogContainer = $(document.createElement("div"));
// add anything to jDialogContainer you want
jDialogContainer.html("hello");
jDialogContainer.dialog({/*options go here*/});

Answer 2

The quickest way is to create the dialog on the fly then just call dialog on it:

$('<div>').html('Hello ' + someVar).dialog()

I like to use jQuery template http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.template/ to create HTML, then call something like dialog on it.