Jquery Dialog - div disappears after initialization

Question

JQuery Dialog is giving me lots of pain lately. I have the following div which I want to be popped up. (Ignore that the classes do not show the double quotes in the syntax)

TABLE class=widget-title-table border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0>
<TBODY>
<TR>
    <TD class=widget-title><SPAN class=widget-title>Basic Info</SPAN></TD>
    <TD class=widget-action>
    <DIV id=edit-actions jQuery1266325647362="3">
        <UL class="linkbutton-menu read-mode">
            <LI class="control-actions">
                <A id="action-button" class="mouse-over-pointer linkbutton">Delete this                 stakeholder</A> 
            <DIV id="confirmation" class="confirmation-dialog title=Confirmation">
                Are you sure you want to delete this stakeholder? 
            </DIV>

</LI></UL></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

The JQuery for this is ...

$(document).ready(function() {

$('#confirmation').dialog({
    bgiframe: true, modal: true, autoOpen: false, closeOnEscape: false,
    draggable: true, position: 'center', resizable: false, width: 400, height: 150
    });

});

And the dialog is 'open'ed by

var confirmationBox = $('#confirmation',actionContent);
if (confirmationBox.length > 0) {


    //Confirmation Needed
    $(confirmationBox).dialog('option', 'buttons', {
        'No': function() {
            $(this).dialog('close');
        },
        'Yes': function() {
            $('ul.read-mode').hide();
            $.post(requestUrl, {}, ActionCallback(context[0], renderFormUrl), 'json');
            $(this).dialog('close');
        }            
    });

    $(confirmationBox).dialog('open');

}

The problem starts in the initialization itself. When the document loads, the <div #confirmation> is deleted from the markup! I had a similar issue earlier, but I cannot use that solution here. On this page I can have multiple PopUp divs.

When I added the initialization in just before opening it; the form popped up. But after I close it, the div is removed; so I am not able to see the popup again.

Answer 1

The reason you're seeing it remove #confirmation is because $("#foo").dialog() will move #foo from wherever it is in the DOM to the bottom of the document inside wrapper elements that create the dialog styling which are initially hidden. It's understood that dialogs are hidden until opened.