How to open a dialog outside the iframe

dialog, iframe, jquery, user-interface

Solution

First, you need to initialize the dialog in the `parent` with `autoOpen` set to `false` if thats the case.

$("#dialog").dialog({ autoOpen: false });

After you can open it from the iframe by adding `parent.` before the expression:

parent.$("#dialog").dialog("open");

Problem

I'm calling a jQueryUI Dialog inside the iframe which looks like this: But i need the dialog outside the iframe (like `window.parent ----> open dialog` or something like that).

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