Question

I have learned how one can open jQuery UI dialogs via KnockoutJS custom bindigns as answered in this question: integrating jquery ui dialog with knockoutjs

If my dialog has an input text field, how can I access data from it upon dialog close to alter the main view model based on the text filed contents? What is the general idea and even handler code place?

Answer 1

This is pretty straightforward. Just put an input in your dialog div with a value binding. Same as you would capture input from any binding. Here is the fiddle from that answer with an input binding.

<div id="dialog" data-bind="dialog: {autoOpen: false, title: 'Dialog test' }, dialogVisible: isOpen">foo dialog
    <input data-bind="value: dialogEntry" />
</div>