jQueryUI autocomplete not working with dialog and zIndex

Question

I ran into an interesting issue with jQueryUI autocomplete in a dialog box.

My dialog HTML looks like this:

Answer 1

What worked for me was a combination of the post above. I added the myModal ID instead of body and added the close event as well.

$("selector").autocomplete({
    ...
    appendTo: "#myModalId",    // <-- do this
    close: function (event, ui){
        $(this).autocomplete("option","appendTo","#myModalId");  // <-- and do this  
    }
});