jQuery: fading in modal dialog

Question

is it possible to smoothly fadein a jquery modal dialog? (can't find anything in the docs). i've tried fadeTo but didn't help.

Answer 1

You can use the show option (admittedly not well named, too general), like this:

$("#dialog").dialog({ show: 'fade' });

The close animation is the matching hide option, for example:

$("#dialog").dialog({ show: 'fade', hide: 'drop' });

You can give it a try here