clicking a button via javascript does not cause a post

Posted by Andreas Niedermair on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Andreas Niedermair
Published on 2010-06-14T08:40:23Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 8:52 UTC
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hi there!

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/jquery-ui.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="fooForm">
        <script type="text/javascript">
            function FooMethod() {
                alert('hello');
            }
            var fooButton;
            var fooForm;
            $(document).ready(function() {
                InitializeVariables();
                InitiliazeDialog();
                InitiliazeForm();
            });
            function InitializeVariables() {
                fooButton = $('#fooButton');
                fooForm = $('#fooForm');
            }
            function InitiliazeDialog() {
                var dialog = $('<div/>');
                dialog.css('display', 'none');
                var content = $('<p/>');
                var icon = $('<span/>');
                icon.addClass('ui-icon ui-icon-alert');
                icon.css('float', 'left');
                icon.css('margin', '0px 7px 20px 0px');
                content.text('do you really want to hurt me?');
                icon.prependTo(content);
                content.appendTo(dialog);

                var dialogOpenMethod = function () {
                    dialog.dialog('open');
                    return false;
                };
                var dialogOpenHandlerMethod = function (event, ui) {
                    var widget = dialog.dialog('widget');
                    widget.appendTo(fooForm);

                    var overlay = widget.prev();
                    overlay.css('z-index', 999);
                    overlay.appendTo(fooForm);

                    widget.css('position', 'fixed');
                    widget.css('top', '50%');
                    widget.css('margin-top', widget.height() / 2 * -1);
                    widget.css('left', '50%');
                    widget.css('margin-left', widget.width() / 2 * -1);
                };
                var submitMethod = function () {
                    dialog.dialog('option', 'closeOnEscape', false);

                    var widget = dialog.dialog('widget');
                    var yesButton = $(':button:eq(0)', widget);
                    var noButton = $(':button:eq(1)', widget);
                    var closeButton = $('a.ui-dialog-titlebar-close', widget);

                    noButton.remove();
                    closeButton.remove();

                    fooButton.unbind('click', dialogOpenMethod);
                    fooButton.click();
                };

                dialog.dialog({
                    autoOpen: false,
                    modal: true,
                    buttons: {
                        'Ja': submitMethod,
                        'Nein': function () {
                            dialog.dialog('close');
                        }
                    },
                    open: dialogOpenHandlerMethod
                });

                fooButton.bind('click', dialogOpenMethod);
            }
            function InitiliazeForm() {
                fooButton.button();
                fooForm.submit(function () {
                    alert('doing a submit');
                });
            }
        </script>
        <input type="submit" id="fooButton" value="submit it!" onclick="FooMethod();"></input>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

what am i doing?
i want a modal-confirmation: user clicks on button, confirmation "do you really want to...?", user clicks "yes", this click unbinds the original click-handler and clicks the button again (which should cause a submit).

what/why is not working?
indeed you need a special case. this demo won't work, unless you set modal: false.
interesting to mention: the original handler (onclick="FooMethod();") is called in modal and non-modal dialog.

can anybody help me out?

thanks in advance!

i also opened a ticket on jqueryUI for this

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