Ah yes, that was missing. Works as expected now, thanks :) (and much
less hacky-feeling).

On Oct 14, 1:36 pm, "Richard D. Worth" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Make sure your click handler has a return false at the end like so
>
> <a href="#sectionname" class="opens-a-dialog">click me to open a
> dialog</div>
> <div id="dialog"></div>
> <script>
> $('#dialog').dialog({ autoOpen: false });
> $('a.opens-a-dialog').click(function() {  $('#dialog').dialog('open');
>   return false;});
>
> </script>
>
> to prevent the browser from navigating to #sectionname.
>
> - Richard
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Gremlyn1 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So I have a set of links at the bottom of a page, and these links open
> > up their respective dialog boxes, which is al working fine. Except
> > when I click the link, the page jumps back to the top and you have to
> > scroll back down to the links to click another and then it all happens
> > again. The dialog also stays down the bottom, centered like it should
> > be in the original view before the page jumped
>
> > To work around this for now I put in an HTML anchor in the header tag
> > of the section where the links are and it stays put now. What I am
> > wondering is if there is a better way to do with all through jQuery
> > UI. The anchor tags has the feeling of being a hack, but if that's
> > what I am stuck with right now, then no worries.
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