jQuery UI dialog button focus

Use the blur method. You can try this sample.

<html>
    <head>
        <title>No Focus on jQuery Dialog</title>
        <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="ui.all.css" />
        <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="ui.core.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="ui.dialog.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function() {
                // Dialog to confirm or cancel
                // Focuses on confirm by default.
                $('#noFocusDialog').dialog({
                    autoOpen: false,
                    buttons: {
                        Confirm: function() {
                            $(this).dialog('close');
                        },
                        Cancel: function() {
                            $(this).dialog('close');
                        }
                    }
                });

                // Trigger to open the dialog
                $('#openNoFocusDialog').click(function() {
                    $('#noFocusDialog').dialog('open');

                    // Remove focus on all buttons within the
                    // div with class ui-dialog
                    $('.ui-dialog :button').blur();
                });
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <a id="openNoFocusDialog" href="#">Open Dialog</a>
        <div id="noFocusDialog">
            <p>Confirm that no elements have focus</p>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

thanks for answers, but it seems to me that the best solution (at least for me, minimal code and no unnecessary use of methods on the DOM) is to define your dialog buttons in an array of object :

buttons: [{
            id  :   "button1",
            text    :   "Button1 text",
            title   :   "tooltip1text1",
            tabIndex:   -1,
            click   :   clickCallback 
        },{
            id      :   "button2",
            text    :   "Button2 text", 
            title   :   "tooltip1text2",
            tabIndex:   -1,
            click   :   function(){$(this).dialog("close")}
        }]

The important part to prevent your buttons to get focus is : tabIntex:-1

It is also a convenient and readable way to give id to your buttons.

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