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Actually, there was (is still) a bug in jQuery: http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/4511.
The reason for this behavior (from the bug description comments): “The dialog itself binds keydown event to itself for closing the dialog on ESC; in addition, the dialog overlay binds a keydown event to the document, without filtering to close only the active dialog.”
I cannot come up with an idea of an acceptable workaround. Is there anyone who has had to deal with it yet?
Very simple – upon creating a modal dialog, run this:
If you create more then one modal dialog, hitting ESC will close the top one only.
Then once you focus on the bottom dialog, hit ESC and it will close it as well.
Hope this helped!
P.S. jQuery UI developers should add an option when you want all dialogs close at once upon hitting ESC key or only the focused ones.