How to remove jQuery-ui dialog title bar?

Question

I am trying to hide jQuery-ui dialog's title bar but keep the close button in the title bar visible. I have searched lots of post on stackoverflow like this one. In each post the title bar is hidden but the space taken by the bar is still there. I want to remove that space also but without removing the close button.

How can i do this?

Answer 1

Based on this answer:

Use .dialog("widget") option to locate the div wrapper for the dialog. The wrapper contains all the markup used for the dialog including header, title bar and close button; and the dialog content itself. Here is one way to invoke the method and hide the title bar:

$("#id").dialog({
    autoOpen: false
}).dialog("widget").find(".ui-dialog-title").hide();​

You can then use CSS to eliminate unnecessary margin, border and padding. For example:

.ui-dialog-titlebar {
    float: right;
    border: 0;
    padding: 0;
}
.ui-dialog-titlebar-close {
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    margin: 0;
    z-index: 999;
}

Here is a demo based on above code plus it adds the necessary styles using jQuery.

Answer 2

If you want to remove the titelbar and keep the close icon using styles only, use the styles below. It shrinks the title bar to the size of the close icon and hides it behind. ui-icons_6e6e6e_256x240.png i created by lightening the ui-icons_222222_256x240.png image that jqueryui comes with.

.ui-dialog .ui-dialog-titlebar.ui-widget-header{background: none; border: none; height: 20px; width: 20px; padding: 0px; position: static; float: right; margin: 0px 2px 0px 0px;}

.ui-dialog-titlebar.ui-widget-header .ui-dialog-title{display: none;}

.ui-dialog-titlebar.ui-widget-header .ui-button{background: none; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC;}

.ui-dialog .ui-dialog-titlebar .ui-dialog-titlebar-close{margin: 0px; position: static;}

.ui-dialog .dialog.ui-dialog-content{padding: 0px 10px 10px 10px;}

.ui-dialog .ui-dialog-titlebar .ui-dialog-titlebar-close .ui-icon{position: relative; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px; top: 0px; left: 0px;}

.ui-dialog .ui-dialog-titlebar .ui-state-default .ui-icon {background-image: url("/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-icons_6e6e6e_256x240.png");}

.ui-dialog .ui-dialog-titlebar .ui-state-hover .ui-icon {background-image: url("/css/ui-lightness/images/ui-icons_222222_256x240.png");}