How can I position my jQuery dialog to center?

Question

I have tried following code, but it only positions dialogs left upper corner position to center, and that makes element to be aligned to right. How can I center dialog to real center which counts elements width, so that center line will cut dialog to 50% 50% halfs?

$('.selector').dialog({ position: 'center' }); 

http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Dialog#option-position

Answer 1

The latest jQuery UI has a position component:

$("#myDialog").position({    my: "center",    at: "center",    of: window }); 

Doc: http://jqueryui.com/demos/position/
Get: http://jqueryui.com/download

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure you shouldn't need to set a position:

$("#dialog").dialog(); 

should center by default.

I did have a look at the article, and also checked what it says on the official jquery-ui site about positioning a dialog : and in it were discussed 2 states of: initialise and after initialise.

Code examples - (taken from jQuery UI 2009-12-03)

Initialize a dialog with the position option specified.

$('.selector').dialog({ position: 'top' }); 

Get or set the position option, after init.

//getter var position = $('.selector').dialog('option', 'position'); //setter $('.selector').dialog('option', 'position', 'top'); 

I think that if you were to remove the position attribute you would find it centers by itself else try the second setter option where you define 3 elements of "option" "position" and "center".