Jquery SelectMenu breaks after closing SimpleModal

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9133344

Question

When I close and reopen a simplemodal the selectmenu no longer works.

Anyone had any experiences with this or know how to fix it?

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
    <style>
        #simplemodal-overlay{background-color: #000;}
        #simplemodal-container { background-color:#333;border:8px solid#444;padding: 12px;color:white;}
        form { margin: 100px 0 0 0 }
        fieldset { border: 0; }
        label { display: block; }
        select { width: 200px; }
        .overflow ul { height: 200px; overflow: auto; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: hidden;}
    </style>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://view.jqueryui.com/selectmenu/themes/base/jquery.ui.all.css"></link>
</head>
  <body>
    <div id="modal" style="display: none">
        <label>This dropdown works</label>
        <select>
            <option value="1">First Option</option>
            <option value="2">Second Option</option>
            <option value="3">Third Option</option>
        </select>
        <p>Now hit esc key</p>
    </div>
    <a id="link" href="javascript:OpenModal('#modal', 200, 300)">Start By Clicking Here!</a>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.ericmmartin.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/simplemodal-login/js/jquery.simplemodal.js?ver=1.4.1'></script>
    <script type='text/javascript' src="http://view.jqueryui.com/selectmenu/ui/jquery.ui.core.js"></script>
    <script type='text/javascript' src="http://view.jqueryui.com/selectmenu/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js"></script>
    <script type='text/javascript' src="http://view.jqueryui.com/selectmenu/ui/jquery.ui.position.js"></script>
    <script type='text/javascript' src="http://view.jqueryui.com/selectmenu/ui/jquery.ui.button.js"></script>
    <script type='text/javascript' src="http://view.jqueryui.com/selectmenu/ui/jquery.ui.menu.js"></script>
    <script type='text/javascript' src="http://view.jqueryui.com/selectmenu/ui/jquery.ui.selectmenu.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function OpenModal(selector, h, w, reposition) {
            $(selector).modal({
                onClose: function (dialog) {
                    $.modal.close();
                    $('#link').html("Click me again");
                    $('#modal label').html("This dropdown doesn't work");                    
                }
            });
        }
        $(function () {
            $('select').selectmenu();
        });
    </script>
</body>
    </html>
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Solution

There is no need to modify either plugin. You just need to move the binding to the onShow callback. The following should do the trick:

    <script type="text/javascript">
    function OpenModal(selector, h, w, reposition) {
        $(selector).modal({
            onShow: function (dialog) {
                $('select', dialog.data[0]).selectmenu();
            },
            onClose: function (dialog) {
                $.modal.close();
                $('#link').html("Click me again");
                $('#modal label').html("This dropdown doesn't work");                    
            }
        });
    }
</script>

The option persist: true might also be required. If that does not work, let me know.

OTHER TIPS

It looks like the simplemodal dialog plugin is causing this.

In short, when it closes, it executes this bit of code:

if (s.o.persist) {
  // insert the (possibly) modified data back into the DOM
  ph.replaceWith(s.d.data.removeClass('simplemodal-data').css('display', s.display));
}
else {
  // remove the current and insert the original,
  // unmodified data back into the DOM
  s.d.data.hide().remove();
  ph.replaceWith(s.d.orig);
}

The replaceWith removes the original DOM element and inserts the one that was copied for the creation of the dialog. Your selectmenu() is bound to the original object, which is now gone. So while CSS is preserved (because simpleModal cloned the original), the event bindings are being blown away.

As an alternative to using the simplemodal plugin, you can consider using jquery-ui's dialog. If you really don't want the title bar to display, simply add a .ui-dialog-titlebar { display: none; } to your css selector.

Here's a basic example: http://jsfiddle.net/fordlover49/nfngy/

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