Cannot open dialog with ajax

[ottoville]

When opening a dialog with JavaScript in single-page template, the dialog fail to open.

How to repeat:
$.mobile.changePage("aPageThatisNotidDom.html", {transition: "pop", role: "dialog"})

Will cause error message: "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'nodeType' of undefined "

I traced the error and seems that reason for this migh be in line 8014, which is:
page = $el.closest( ":jqmData(role='page')" ),

It cannot find the content for variable "page", because on dialogs which are crawled with ajax, data-role attribute is a "dialog", not a "page".

Tested on Google Chrome 24, jQuery mobile 1.3.0, jQuery 1.9.1

[mrextreme]

I just found out there is no $( selector ).dialog( 'open' )... Wow.

In the meanwhile you can give a try using a popup as dialog. http://api.jquerymobile.com/popup/

[gabrielschulhof]

I cannot reproduce this using the latest version (http://jsbin.com/onibuc/340) or using 1.3.0 (http://jsbin.com/onibuc/342). If my jsbins do not reproduce the issue, please correct them and re-open this issue.

[mrextreme]

$.mobile.changePage() ...

In that case, the documentation ( http://api.jquerymobile.com/dialog/ ) needs an update, saying that this is the way of opening dialogs from JavaScript.

I cannot reopen the issue to keep it up until the documentation is updated. :(

[mrextreme]

Thanks.

[gabrielschulhof]

Blurb added. HTH!

[ottoville]

I have tracked down the error and got jsfiddle example
http://jsfiddle.net/NTQ2L/

It is when dialog page contains a panel, when it trigger the error:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'nodeType' of undefined

[gabrielschulhof]

This issue is fixed in branch ext-panels, which will be merged for 1.4.0.

[jaspermdegroot]

The branch has been merged so I am closing as fixed. Let us know if this is still an issue in the 1.4 alpha release.