I have a jQuery UI Dialog working great on my ASP.NET page:
jQuery(function() { jQuery(\"#dialog\").dialog({ draggable: true, resizable:
FWIW, the form:first technique didn't work for me.
However, the technique in that blog article did:
http://blog.roonga.com.au/2009/07/using-jquery-ui-dialog-with-aspnet-and.html
Specifically, adding this to the dialog declaration:
open: function(type,data) { $(this).parent().appendTo("form"); }