A dialog has a lot of default behavior built-in, but few methods are needed to control it programmatically, making this an easy to use widget that is also highly configurable and powerful.
Generating the widget is simple and requires a minimal underlying markup structure. The following page contains the minimum markup that's required to implement the dialog widget:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="development-bundle/themes/smoothness/ui.all.css"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>jQuery UI Dialog Example 1</title> </head> <body> <div id="myDialog" title="This is the title!"> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean sollicitudin. Sed interdum pulvinar justo. Nam iaculis volutpat ligula. Integer vitae...