Question

I have a small form that contains a jQuery UI dialog to ask for additional information if a particular checkbox is checked. The dialog opens and contains 2 additional checkboxes.

The problem is when the form is submitted the 2 checkboxes in the dialog do not get submitted with the rest of the form. From what I can tell when jQuery renders the dialog, it actually renders it outside the closing form tag, causing the checkboxes to not be part of the form anymore.

I have tried things like:

$("#dialog-form").parent().appendTo($("#ContactSpeakerForm:first"));

But have not come up with a good solution.

Here is my js:

$(function() {

    var eventReg = $('#dialog-form').dialog({
        autoOpen: false,
        modal: true,
        buttons: {
            Ok: function() {
                $(this).dialog("close");
            }
        }
    });

    $('#Confirmed').click(function() {
        if($('#Confirmed').attr('checked')) {
            eventReg.dialog("open");
        }
    });
});

Here is the html:

<form id="ContactSpeakerForm" name="ContactSpeakerForm" action="/contacts/add-contact-speaker/id/3420" method="post">

    <input type="hidden" name="ID" value="" id="ID">
    <input type="hidden" name="Contact_ID" value="3420" id="Contact_ID">    

    <div class="page_panel_table">
    <table>
        <tbody>
            <tr>
                <td align="right" class="form_label">Confirmed:</td>
                <td>
                    <input type="checkbox" name="Confirmed" id="Confirmed" value="1">
                </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td><input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Save"></td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>        
    </div>

    <div id="dialog-form" style="display:none;" title="Speaker Event Registration">
        <input type="checkbox" name="RegisterForEvent" id="RegisterForEvent" value="1">
        <input type="checkbox" name="RegisterForDinner" id="RegisterForDinner" value="1">
    </div>
</form>

Anyone know a good solution?

Answer 1

After setting up your dialog, use:

eventReg.closest('div.ui-dialog').appendTo('#ContactSpeakerForm');

There are two key things here. First, you run this after the widget has had a chance to initialize and change the mark up. Second, you remove the dependence on the direct parent/child relationship.