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Parent window should remain blocked until child window is closed

Hi,

I've a followng problem:

The parent window activates some Popup and should remain blocked until the child window is closed.

Thank you for assistance.
May 4 '06 #1
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If you want a modal dialog, showModalDialog is supported in IE and soon to be supported in Firefox. For other browsers, try using the onfocus event on the parent window to force the focus back to the child window using child.focus().
Apr 24 '08 #2

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