If I understand what you want to do, a dialog box may be overkill
here.

Do you thing something like qTip would do what you looking for:

http://craigsworks.com/projects/qtip/demos/

On Aug 11, 9:51 pm, Mr Fett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to find a simple way to use the jQuery UI Dialog box to
> provide simple context sensitive help.
>
> Thus far I have a bit of HTML at the bottom of every page that is
> hidden:
>
> Then I invoke the Dialog box from a self contained link like this:
>
> <a href="#" onclick="$('#dialog').html('Enter a Date');  $
> ('#dialog').dialog({ title: 'Da Da' });">help</a>
>
> Unfortunately, after the first dialog box is closed, the rest cease to
> work - presumably because the HTML in the footer is being removed, not
> just hidden.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions or a more elegant solution?  I feel
> like I'm missing something really obvious as surely this is exactly
> the sort of thing 'dialog' should be used for.
>
> Thanks
>
> B

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