jQuery UI dialog button focus

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When a jQuery UI dialog opens, it selects one of the buttons and highlights it or sets focus to it etc... How can I stop this behaviour so that none of the buttons are highlighted when the dialog opens?

EDIT: I tried the following in the dialog options, which didn't remove focus from the buttons:

...
open:function(event, ui) { $("myunimportantdiv").focus(); },
...

NOTE: As a temporary workaround I modified the CSS for .ui-state-focus but this isn't ideal...

dialog jquery-ui
13 Answers

Use the blur method. You can try this sample.

<html>
    <head>
        <title>No Focus on jQuery Dialog</title>
        <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="ui.all.css" />
        <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="ui.core.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="ui.dialog.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function() {
                // Dialog to confirm or cancel
                // Focuses on confirm by default.
                $('#noFocusDialog').dialog({
                    autoOpen: false,
                    buttons: {
                        Confirm: function() {
                            $(this).dialog('close');
                        },
                        Cancel: function() {
                            $(this).dialog('close');
                        }
                    }
                });

                // Trigger to open the dialog
                $('#openNoFocusDialog').click(function() {
                    $('#noFocusDialog').dialog('open');

                    // Remove focus on all buttons within the
                    // div with class ui-dialog
                    $('.ui-dialog :button').blur();
                });
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <a id="openNoFocusDialog" href="#">Open Dialog</a>
        <div id="noFocusDialog">
            <p>Confirm that no elements have focus</p>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>
user_2315730

I had this same problem... Trying to set the focus to another element didn't seem to do the trick for me, but blurring focus from the selected element (in the "open" callback) did:

    $('#dialog').dialog
    ({
    open: function ()
        {
        $('#element-that-gets-selected').blur();
        }
    });

I suppose a way to prevent focus without specifying a specific name would be to use a selector with first, like this:

    $('#dialog').dialog
    ({
    open: function ()
        {
        $(this).find('select, input, textarea').first().blur();
        }
    });
user_3154990

It's clear focus is causing the jQuery Dialog to scroll to interesting areas when opened. It's referenced just about everywhere now.

blur works, but not if you have a lot of content. if the button is at the bottom of the content, blur will remove the selection, but leave the dialog scrolled to the bottom. using scrollTop scrolled the content to the top, but left the button selected. If a user accidentally hit the return key, the button or link would fire. I chose a combination:

$('#dialog').dialog({
    open: function (event, ui){

        $('a_selector').blur();
        $(this).scrollTop(0); 

    }
});

worked like a champ...

Admin1

I could do this in this way. jquery-ui-1.12.0.custom/jquery-ui.css -> onuline:none add on 896 line ouline:none 

.ui-widget button {
        font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
        font-size: 1em;
        outline:none;
    }
user_118548630
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