jQueryUI modal dialog does not show close button (x)

Question

I'm using a jQuery modal dialog in my ASP .NET MVC 3 application. It works fine except for that there is no close button showing in the top right corner. How can I add this?

$("#dialog-modal").dialog({
            modal: true,
            autoOpen: false,
            buttons: {
                Ok: function () {
                    $(this).dialog("close");
                }
            }
        });

Answer 1

Another possibility is that you have the bootstrap library. Some version of bootstrap and jquery-ui have conflict with the .button() method, and if your bootstrap.js is placed after jquery-ui.js, the bootstrap .button() overrides your jquery button and the jquery-ui 'X' image would then not show up.

see here: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/6094

This works (close box visible):

<script src="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

This causes the issue:

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script src="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>