A simple Leaflet control to open a jQuery UI dialog.

Popupo dialogs, especially modal ones, are great for help panels, or for feedback forms, or for displaying a legend that doesn't need to take up screen space all the time. And if you want a Leaflet-styled button on your map, which would trigger this dialog... here's the plugin for you.

For a quick start, see the example folder, or the live demo: http://gregallensworth.github.io/L.Control.jQueryDialog/

Assuming that you already have already have a Leaflet map running and a jQuery UI Dialog set up, the control runs like this:

new L.Control.jQueryDialog({
    dialogId: 'dialog-help',
    tooltip: "How to use this thing",
    iconClass: 'fa fa-question-circle'
}).addTo(MAP);

Parameters are:

• dialogId -- The DOM ID of the DIV element, e.g. what you put inside the id="" part. Required

• tooltip -- A tooltip to be displayed when the user hovers their mouse over the button. Optional

• iconClass -- Additional CSS class/classesfor adding an icon. jQuery UI doesn't come with a built-in set of icons, so you have to supply your own. Example if you use FontAwesome: fa fa-info-circle

jQuery UI doesn't come with a built-in set of icons, so you have to supply your own. Some very popular icon sets are:

• FontAwesome https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/ -- Your iconClass would include the fa- bits, for example: fa fa-question-circle

• Bootstrap Glyphicons http://getbootstrap.com/components/#glyphicons -- Your iconClass would include the glyphicon- bits, for example: glyphicon glyphicon-search