web page dialog

[Angel]

how does one create a web page dialog? I was astonished to find in Hotmail when you empty your junkmail box in hotmail that a explorer window pops up and emulates as a dialog window but with a custom web page in it. It confirms that are you sure that you want to empty your junk-mail inbox. on the window title bar it says "Hotmail - Web Page Dialog". it even behaves like a dialog not letting you to go back to the original explorer window until ou click something in the dialog box.

so I was wondering how does one create a web dialog box, is it a new javascript function besides the simple dialogs that generate windows message box?

thanks...

[Joe.Dattilo]

In Internet Explorer within your javascript you can use :

vReturnValue = window.showModalDialog(sURL [, vArguments] [, sFeatures])

here is a link to the full documentation :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...odaldialog.asp
In netscape :

var dialogWindow = window.open("dialog.html","dlog","height=300,width =450,modal=yes")

Hope this helps.

-joe
"Angel" wrote:

how does one create a web page dialog? I was astonished to find in Hotmail when you empty your junkmail box in hotmail that a explorer window pops up and emulates as a dialog window but with a custom web page in it. It confirms that are you sure that you want to empty your junk-mail inbox. on the window title bar it says "Hotmail - Web Page Dialog". it even behaves like a dialog not letting you to go back to the original explorer window until ou click something in the dialog box.

so I was wondering how does one create a web dialog box, is it a new javascript function besides the simple dialogs that generate windows message box?

thanks...

[Joe.Dattilo]

In Internet explorer the following syntax will open a modal dialog
vReturnValue = window.showModalDialog(sURL [, vArguments] [, sFeatures])

Here is the link to msdn ShowModalDialog Docs :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...odaldialog.asp

In Netscape use :
var dialogWindow = window.open("dialog.html","dlog","height=300,width =450,modal=yes")

Hope this helps.
joe

"Angel" wrote:

how does one create a web page dialog? I was astonished to find in Hotmail when you empty your junkmail box in hotmail that a explorer window pops up and emulates as a dialog window but with a custom web page in it. It confirms that are you sure that you want to empty your junk-mail inbox. on the window title bar it says "Hotmail - Web Page Dialog". it even behaves like a dialog not letting you to go back to the original explorer window until ou click something in the dialog box.

so I was wondering how does one create a web dialog box, is it a new javascript function besides the simple dialogs that generate windows message box?

thanks...