Page automatically go to the top when opening a jquery dialog box

Question

Every time I click my button at the bottom to open the jquery dialog box, the page will automatically scroll to the top. I'm using firefox browser.

Please advise.

Many thanks.

related : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/744554/jquery-ui-dialog-positioning — Haim Evgi, Jul 19 '11 at 09:34

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '11 at 09:37

5

I guess you have to prevent the default operation of the button

$('#myButton').click(function(event){
    event.preventDefault()
    // .... open dialog.
});

OR you have to return false on the onclick event of button

<input type="button" value="My Button" onclick="openDialog();return false;" />

answered Jul 19 '11 at 09:37

Talha Ahmed Khan

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