diff --git a/ui/new/index.jsp b/ui/new/index.jsp
index 4faf013754d..d83cd339f8f 100644
--- a/ui/new/index.jsp
+++ b/ui/new/index.jsp
@@ -266,13 +266,13 @@ long milliseconds = new Date().getTime();
                                     <%=t.t("help")%></div>
                             </div>
                             
-                            <div class="help_dropdown_box" style="display:none;">
+                            <div class="help_dropdown_box" id="help_dropdown_dialog" style="display:none;">
                             	<div class="help_dropdown_box_titlebox">
                                 	<h2> Instance Help</h2>
-                                    <a href="#"> Close</a>
+                                    <a id="help_dropdown_close" href="#"> Close</a>
                                 </div>
                                 
-                                <div class="help_dropdown_box_textbox">
+                                <div class="help_dropdown_box_textbox" id="help_dropdown_body">
                                 	<p>Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. </p><p>It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.</p>
                                 </div>
                             </div>
diff --git a/ui/new/scripts/cloud.core2.init.js b/ui/new/scripts/cloud.core2.init.js
index 961856de187..380a2542754 100644
--- a/ui/new/scripts/cloud.core2.init.js
+++ b/ui/new/scripts/cloud.core2.init.js
@@ -166,6 +166,17 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
 		return;
 	}
 	
+	// Initialize help drop down dialog
+	$("#help_link").bind("click", function(event) {
+		$("#help_dropdown_dialog").show();
+		return false;
+	});
+	
+	$("#help_dropdown_close").bind("click", function(event) {
+		$("#help_dropdown_dialog").hide();
+		return false;
+	});
+	
 	/*
 	initializeTestTool();
 	*/