Recently I found myself having to create a system by which I could capture some user data from a web application using some unobtrusive javascript. I settled on a system using jQuery, jQueryUI and an XML Web Service. The basic idea is quite simple: the user clicks a hyperlink, this triggers a form to pop [...]

I first created this post as a question because after several hours of searching online I couldn’t find a straightforward solution to a problem I had. Here briefly is a description of what I was trying to do and the problem I had.