Question

I have a dialog that uses jQuery UI and is opened by clicking on a link. Is it possible to get the ID of the link that was clicked from the dialog?

Answer 1

In your code that opens the dialog, you can do this:

$('#the-link').click(function() {
    var dialog = ...;
    ...
    dialog.data('openingElementId', this.id);
});

Then, in your dialog code, you can retrieve the data that was set:

var openerId = this.element.data('openingElementId');