Question

Is there a way to detect whether or not a user clicked on a link from within a jQuery dialog?

The dialog is opened using moreBlock.dialog('open'); and the link is available from the parent window and within the jQuery dialog.

I need to detect whether the link was clicked from within an open dialog or just from the parent window.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Why not just check to see if it’s inside the dialog by checking if it has a parent with a ui-dialog class

$('a').click(function(){
    if($(this).closest('.ui-dialog').length > 0){
        // code here for anchor inside dialog
    }
});

http://jsfiddle.net/p5V68/1/