I'd like to position my jQuery UI dialogs a bit better. The default "center" position puts them directly in the middle of the page, but it certainly looks better to have them offset about 70% up the page as they are in Facebook. I'm looking at the .position function but am a bit unclear what the simplest solution is.
2 Answers
For jquery-ui 1.9+:
$("#dialog").dialog({ position: { my: "center", at: "top+30%", of: window } });
For jquery-ui 1.8:
$("#dialog").dialog({ position: { my: "center", at: "top", of: window, offset: "0 30%" } });
It's something like that but play around with offset values.
1 Comment
JAAulde
+1 Awesome, helped me out for an older system using jQ UI 1.8.x. Thanks!
The easiest way would be to use the position()
$("#dialog").dialog("widget").position({
my: 'left',
at: 'right',
of: target
});
Or, if you already have calculated the dimensions
var x = 50; //calculate the 70%, with your own logic
var y = 100;
$("#dialog").dialog('option', 'position', [x,y]);
Or you can specify the height during initialisation of the widget
$("#dialgo").dialog({
autoOpen: false,
width: 400 ,
position: [300,200]
});
3 Comments
Hawkee
I was afraid I'd have to do some calculations. I was hoping there would be a simpler way to do it.
Andrew Fox
+1 I just spent the last 30 minutes looking for the
position: [300,200] part of this puzzle. Thanks!
Timothy C. Quinn
Note:
position: [300,200] does not work in 1.12.1 . The proper code is to use position: {my: 'top left', at: 'top+300 left+300', of: window}