jquery dialog form with dynamic variables

Currently I have an html form - which I call with jquery dialog - to insert new records into a ta开发者_开发知识库ble. But I also would like to update existing records with the same form - using jquery dialog. I'm not sure within the dialog how I access these data values - or pass them in as arguments - and hook them up with the form elements...? Anyone has done this before and knows an agile technique to do this? kind regards, Patrick

If you are using Jquery UI dialog then you can access any element in the page as if it is not a dialog. Jquery UI dialog makes a div a dialog by making it invisible ("display:none"), adds the proper widget items and shows it when u call dialog("open"). So you can access any element in the page since it is just a div in your page.

HTH