Disabling parent window

[Bujji]

Hi All,
I am opening one new window from the current window....
Can any one help me to disable the parent window after opening the new
window....
and at the same time i want to enable the parent window after closing
the new window.

Thanks in advance,
Suresh T.

[VK]

Bujji wrote:

Hi All,
I am opening one new window from the current window....
Can any one help me to disable the parent window after opening the new
window....
and at the same time i want to enable the parent window after closing
the new window.

IE has showModalDialog method but AFAIK no other UA supports it.

The best cross-browser modal dialog I found so far is:
<http://www.subimage.com/sublog/subModal>

[Randy Webb]

VK said the following on 5/25/2006 6:35 AM:

Bujji wrote:

Hi All,
I am opening one new window from the current window....
Can any one help me to disable the parent window after opening the new
window....
and at the same time i want to enable the parent window after closing
the new window.

IE has showModalDialog method but AFAIK no other UA supports it.

The best cross-browser modal dialog I found so far is:
<http://www.subimage.com/sublog/subModal>

Have you not seen
<URL: http://www.litotes.demon.co.uk/js_info/pop_ups.html>
yet?

The advantage to Richard's is degradability when scripting is disabled.
Try yours with script disabled.

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