MVC 3, reuse of partial views and jquery, without conflicting the DOM

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As i am still new to MVC 3 and jquery, i would like to know a best practice solution to how the following can be solved:

I have a view, where I use jquery ajax to fetch and display a partial view with some product details for product A. The loaded partial view consist of a bunch of html and jquery code, which is tied to the defined id's within the partial view.

Thus, i would like to reuse the same partial view to show details from other products on the same View (e.g. show product B details in a pop-up dialog). Whenever the pop-up is shown, the newly fetched partial view will conflict with the partial view for product A, as the same id's are used in the html.

Conceptual overview of the case

Is there a way to encapsulate the html and javascript in the partial view, and reuse it several pages without worry about any conflicts with ID's and stuff?

I hope my question makes sense. Thanks,

/Nima

UPDATED

Here is some pseudo code, outlining my issue:

VIEW

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {

    $('.productItems').click(function () {
        var input = { productId: $(this).attr('data-productID') };
        var url = url = '<%: Url.Content("~/ProductDetails/ShowProductDetails") %>';


        // Show the modal box with product details
        $('#dialogBox').dialog({
            title: $(this).attr('data-productTitle')
        });


        // Fetch content in the background
        $.get(url, input, function (result, response) {
            $('#dialogBox').html(result);
            });
    });
});
</script>


<div id="detailsArea">
    <% Html.RenderPartial("ProductDetails", Model.Product); %>
</div>

<div id="productLinks">
  <span class="productItems" data-productID="123">Product B</a>
</div>

<div id="dialogBox" style="display: none;"></div>

Controller -> Action (ShowProductDetails)

public ActionResult ShowProductDetails(int productId)
{
  // Get product from db. and return the partial view

  return PartialView("ProductDetails", p);
}

Partial View (ProductDetails)

<script type="text/javascript">

   function SetProductTabContent(selectedTab) {
        $("#productDescriptionContent > div").css('display', 'none');

        switch (selectedTab) {

            case '#tab-1':
                $('#productDescriptionText').css('display', 'block');
                break;

            case '#tab-2':
                $('#productSpecificationText').css('display', 'block');
                break;   
        }


$(document).ready(function () {
    // Get all the menu items
    var menuItems = $("#productMenu a");

    // Select the first tab as default
    menuItems.first().addClass("menuItemActive");

    // Handle the look of the tabs, when user selects one. 
    menuItems.click(function () {

        var item = $(this);

        // Get content for the selected tab
        SetProductTabContent(item.attr('href'));

        menuItems.removeClass("menuItemActive");
        item.addClass("menuItemActive");
        return false;
    });
});
</script>


<div id="productMenu" style="">
    <a href="#tab-1">
        <div class="menuItemHeader">Menu1</div>
    </a>
    <a href="#tab-2">
        <div class="menuItemHeader">Menu2 </div>
    </a>
</div>


<div id="productDescriptionContent">

        <div id="productDescriptionText" style="display: none;">
            <%: Model.Product.Description %>
        </div>
        <div id="productSpecificationText" style="display: none;">
            <%: Model.Product.Description2%>
        </div>
</div>

ISSUE When the partial view gets loaded twice in the DOM, the divs conflicts.

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