Modal Windows

[paull]

Could anyone help me in creating modal windows? I tried using window.showModalDialog , it worked in opening the modal window. But I am facing the following issues.
1. On submit from the modal window, it is opening another window, it should be in the same window where submit happened.
2. how can i pass the values from the modal window to parent window. I tried using window.opener.document. ....
but it is throwing javascript error

thanks for ur help

[Dormilich]

there seems to be something wrong with your code…

showModalDialog() @ MDC

[paull]

But i need to return more than one values to the parent windows. how is it possible. I have some hidden fields in the parent window and I need to set the values to that hidden variables from the modal window..

[Dormilich]

put them into an array or object and return this. see also the MSDN description.

[paull]

actually what i need is to close the modal window and submit the parent window, before submitting i need to assign some values to the variables in the parent window

the following is my close function in the modal window.
window.opener.document.forms[0].action="act.do?method=view";
window.opener.document.forms[0].ncId.value=ncId;
window.opener.document.forms[0].submit();
window.close();

[Dormilich]

you can also do that right after the modal window was closed using its return value (assuming you use an object to get multiple values)

[paull]

hi ,. m not clear with the reply. could u plz explain more?

[Dormilich]

OK, something like

// assuming you return an object: {id: "id_value", page: "act.do?method=view"}
var r = window.showModalDialog(…);
document.forms[0].ncId.value = r.id;
document.forms[0].action = r.page;

[paull]

how will we assign the return values from the modal window?

var r = window.showModalDialog(…);

i mean, from where the value for r is assigned ? in my modal window, on click on close button , it should close the modal window and then submit of parent window should happen...

[Dormilich]

@paull
from within the modal window, see MSDN for further explanation.

[paull]

how can i submit an action to another jsp page from modal window. ...

I use struts...

[Dormilich]

use the submit() method.