Trigger event on dialog box open

Question

My dialog box is defined under the div

#dialogbox

When the dialog box opens i want to trigger an event such that it alerts open. The code im us

Answer 1

You can use this :

$( ".selector" ).dialog({
  open: function( event, ui ) {}
});

or the event listener .on

$( ".selector" ).on( "dialogopen", function( event, ui ) {} );

More information in this page :

http://api.jqueryui.com/dialog/#event-open