Datagrid Girl

It's not work under IE 5.0

Interesting, it works great for us under IE 6, and both <base> and showModalDialog were around in IE 5, so I'm surprised that it doesn't work there.

The standard solution I always employed was to load a dummy page in the modal dialog that only writes out an IFRAME to the window (height/width 100% and no border). The IFRAME is given a SRC tag of the actual page to be viewed. In this case, postbacks and whatnot will work fine in a showModalDialog or showModelessDialog.

I've run into this problem too and did the following:
* when entering the page i give window.name a unique name.
* i set the target of my links to this name

btw:
window.navigate(newUrl) or
window.location.href = newUrl will open a new window.
use window.open(newUrl, window.name) instead.

and:
disable all caching for pages that are used in modal dialogs. When IE has to show a url that's cached it loads from the cache without asking the server in some circumstances.

better than ron's approach but I can't check whether it works fine with IE 5.x
(got an upgrade some years ago)

Thank you so much MatHertel the window.name works great!!!

Btw, <base target=_self> didn't work for me :S

It solve my problem when i was working on progress bar with VB.net.

Thank a lot.

I want to write the AJAX response in the Modal Window. Has any one got the  solution for this?

Thanks In advance

Thanks Marcie for this solution.

<base target="_self" />

My team must have spent some 30 man hours on this problem.

btw, I saw some comments that this solution didn't work for them... Make sure they are using window.showModalDialog and not window.open.

Exact solution

thanks

Thanks Marcie,

I spent 6 hours on this problem

and <base target="_self" />  resolve my problem

Perfect.  Similar story to others: wasted a few hours on this, until I saw your solution.  Thanks.

Unbelievable, never thought that would be the resolution, again, more than a few hours wasted and thinking there was no solution. Cheers!

Wasted 5 minutes.  Did a google search.  Found this great article.  Very happy that I did not waste 30 man hours.  Thanks everyone.

Worked great... Thanks...

Base target solution worked fine for me after trying other things for hours. Thanks for your effort to find and post this solution.

thanks .. saved my day.

Worked like a charm !

:-)

Thanks for posting this - it works

Works for me!!!

Uhul!!!

Thanks Marcie!

Great solution,

really u saved my time. I was breaking my head since 2 days..

once again thanks,

hari

Works fine...  Good article...  Thanks a lot...

Working Fine

thnx

Why it is not solving my issue.. I have grid in modal popup.. When i click Edit button it is getting postback. All code gets executed but on poup page it is not coming in edit mode.. I have edit item template defined... and it is not visible on screen on click of edit button..

What to do ....????

Fantastic,

I was about to move to window.open.

saved my day

Thanks

<base target=_self>

Works fine..

but the title of IE goes away.. when is posted...

is there any solution ? that will not make any change in the iE title

Another happy customer! <BASE Target=_self> works fine for me.

Thanks for saving me a lot of time.

thanks a lot , it is working fine. I spent three hours and breaking my head

It's not working for me.

I'm using master pages.

It's not working for me.

I'm using master pages.

function VendorContact(VendorId)

   {

     Options = "dialogTop:50px; dialogLeft:50px;dialogWidth:340px;dialogHeight:155px;help:no;scroll:no;status:no"

     OpenReportJS = window.showModalDialog("VendorContact.aspx?VID=" + VendorId,"_blank",Options) ;

   }  

And i'm getting the vendorid from xsl.

I got an error like "Object doesn't support this action".

I have been trying htis from past 5 hours.

Please help me out in giving the solution.

thanks a lot , it is working fine. I spent three hours and breaking my head

The answer on how to do postback in modal / modaless diaglogs. weblogs.asp.net/.../archive

You've saved my life!

Thanks

Very good solution - i have been fighting with this several times - great - thanks :)

<base target="_self" />

worked great

Many thanks

Love you marcie.

You save my day.

Really worked..Thanks :)

Lots of thanks!!!

Be careful, because it doesn't runs if smartnavigation is true.

Sorry for my english.... :(

When I use <base target="_self" /> I can't use the Virtual Earth Mapping control under IE 6

Thank you Marcie, you save my life.

Now I have a problem when I'm trying to access opener's controls from the child modal window but this problem doesn't appear when the child window was open by using "window.open" instead "window.showModalDialog".

Do anybody know how to solve this issue?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks a lot Marcie!

Good solution for this issue.

Thanks a lot again.

For those who need information about  "showModalDialog" check the following link

msconline.maconstate.edu/.../jsdhtml07-05.htm

What an easy solution, I was running out of ideas!  Thank you.

It worked for me. Great solution. I was breaking my head on this for last two days. Thank You.

Thank you very much.

thanx u alot , it was great

yes <base target="_self" > works for submitting a request through a modal window without opening a new window.

But make sure you DO NOT HAVE any other property set like document.forms[0].target  = _self (I was doing it and it was not working)

Another thing i noticed is title disappears after the modal window refreshes !! someone mentioned it in the post but no one answered it ?? can anyone provide some inputs on it ??

To make sure the title does not disappear after a request is made from a modal window ... all you have to do is make sure the title is the first tag after ur head tag ..

<head>

<title>

ur title

</title>

<base target=_self>

.

.

</head>

Hope this helps anyone ... and thanks to all who posted their comments.

Hey thanks....

no matter what they said about your solution, it is the simplest and for me it's the best.

it worked for me. Great solution. I spent several hours and nothing. Thank you so much.

Thanks buddy..it worked for me

I was using .net 3.5 , C# asp.net

Thanks a lot...

it was of a gr8 help 2 me...

Thanks,

i help me lot

Hi,

Thanks a lot.

Navin

Anyone notice how the Modal window repositions itself to its original XY location after post back.

Does anyone have an easy fix other then read/write xy coords in a cookie on unload/load.

Figured it out. you need to set the window.dialogLeft and window.dialogTop on Unload to retain its position.

I have got the same problem of postback with showModelessDialog. it opens a new window with url having JS code. Please provide help.

The solution proposed by MatHertel (4th comment) work also great.

thanks

thanks a lot, it helped me.

Thanx MatHertel ... you comments were like the words from an angel which solved my issue.

Thank you...this really helped me.

Lots of thanks man!!!

Thanks for this solution it has worked great

Hi

Base/self fix worked for me a treat - spent all day trying to stop my modal windows spawning new ones...

got so exasparated that i accidently ripped of the front of my desk draw when i got one pop up to many..

fix worked and am happy :)

now to fix my desk....

I was diagnosing the problem as a IE issue as firefox handled the javascript/html as i expected from the beginning :)

Thank you soooo much!

Tnx dude,

You've saved me from allot of headache.

This solved my problem in 5 min.

Thanks! This worked for me, tested in Firefox and IE7, using ASP.NET Master Pages.

As a side note, the proper HTML would be:

<base target="_self"/>

Not that the browser would really care, but... :)

After using <base target="_self"> ,still ther is same problem. Page going to be refreshed and open a new window?

Please give me some solution, if any ...Thanks

Thanks !!!

 Got the solution !!! Working for this since morning !!!

Thanks DATAGRID Girl - I LOVE YOU :)

I read that ShowModalDialog would eventually be phased out of IE.  Are you all still using it?  I  tried to  use the Ajax Toolkit ModalPopup instead but it does not do what I need to do.

make sure to also add the following in the aspx page

<%@ OutputCache Duration="1" VaryByParam="*"%>

or you will only hit the page_load on the first click

Genius -  saved me hours, thanks!

I used <base target=_self>

It is useful

but if I want to popup a CSV in this model widows,It doesnt  work

who can tell me how should I do?

Thanks

use iframe, submit form target to iframe

Ex:

<form method = "" action ="" target = "hiddenFrame">

</form>

.....

<iframe name="hiddenFrame" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="1" height="1">

</iframe>

thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks.....

What should one use in XHTML 1.1, where the base tag no longer has a target attribute?

Thanks, works.

For this to work

<head>

<base target="_self">

</head>

Property MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack="True"

must be set at

the <%Page Language ....MaintainScroll....... %>

SmartNavigation is Obsolete.. But can still be effective.

Use MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack instead.

thanks i saved a lot of time, it works

I need to open the new modal dialog from modal dialog which is already open. Above solution not worked for me.

If anyone have any other solution plz help me out .....

Thanks in advance

I need to implement modal windows with several form post backs. Initially, i had the problem that new windows were being spawned everytime a form post back was done inside the modal popup window. I added <base target="_self"/> to the modal windows to solve this problem but now I am getting script errors during certain postbacks in the modal windows.

If anyone has any solution to this, plz help me out,,,Thanks

what if it is a master page?

Thanks... <base target="_self" /> solved my problem... its very simple but unique.

Awsome!!!! Works like a charm!!! U Rock!!! :)

Works like a charm, solved another headache.

++AAAA

THANK YOU !

thnx very much , but now i have another problem

i can't find the opener object !!

can any 1 help ???

Hi <base target="_self" />  works great.

But still on post back, the contents of modal window (not the modal window) shifts a little from its original position both on horizontal and vertical axis.

I am a newbee to ASP.NET. Any explanations why this behaviour ?

Thanks Alot Marcie,

it worked greatly for me..........

Great discusstion, solve my problems

grt i also spend 4 hours for new window problem and once again comes with title disappear problem... but this time thank god to this article....just take 5 minute...

Thanks,

  You save me. I think make load data from my aspx with JSON for resolve this problem.

Hi,

If you should put <base target="_self" /> at the begining of head tag then, it works fine for all cases.

Navin

Thanks...dude....solved my problem. Saved me lots of time. really appreciate it.

Sorry for just another thanks! after 5years you still make us happy with your post! :) Victor

Amazing post. The problem took me hours of my work time. Also thanks everyone for the tips :D

Hi, This works fine for IE 6.

But what is with IE7 ? This does not run under IE7.

Can anybody help me?

I used this but doesnt seems like working, so, I used html page and IFrame to do that...and worked fine...

Hi,

Thanks for saving my time for figuring out what's going on.

I work with CRM4.0 and IE7 and the

<base target=_self>

works with my application opened in ModalDialog.

Thanks,

Mike

Thanks for this tip, it works great. That saved me some searching!

That's work absolutely fine...

excelente TIp, me ahorraste mucho tiempo de investigacion, trabaja a la perfeccion.

Gracias

Cracking - I nearly recoded the modal window and the caller as did a colleague!

Cheers folks!

great article, thanks

Thanks it worked...

I put the target=_self in and it worked for IE 6 but not IE 7 or 8.  so then I moved the target=_self to be the first thing in the HEAD section instead of the last thing, and then it worked for IE 7 and 8 too.  Weird. I wouldn't think it'd make a difference.

Excellent. Worked so well even for IE 7.

Worked great, thanks for thinking about us!

:)

Thanks a lot!! Exactly what i was looking for..!!!

Finally I found the solution for my problem, its breaking my head in 2 days, Thanks a lot. Great...

Many Thanks for this <base target=_self> soln

many thanks for this post it solved my problem which i am working for since morning you saved my day and work

Even after 5 years, this is still helping many people. It helped me. Thanks a lot.

Excellent !!!

Can anybody put the reason that why it happens ?

My problem was this:

window.name=something

<form target="something">

This method worked in IE8 but not in Firefox

<form target="_self">

This method worked in Firefox but not in IE8

I could only support one of the two browsers! Until...

<base target="_self" />

This works for both IE8 and Firefox 3.6

Thank you very much, Marcie!

Thank u very much...Its working with

<base target="_parent" />

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thank a looooooooooooooot

Thank´s, Thank´s, Thank´s !!! So, I´m migrating a desktop system developed in VB6 to ASP.NET with MVC, and in this point I have 4 sequential modal windows opened, and in the last one, after submit my form it was opening in a new window. With <base target="_self" /> it no more occurs and the general performance of these windows was improved, I don´t know why, but.. it´s working !!!

great

Works fine, but i have a grid on the model dialog box and i am binding some data to it from database. On post back i am loosing all the data. Why is this happening?

WOW it saved my time big time, I was about to change my logic and remove showModalDialog

It works !!!!!!! thanks brother

<base target="_self" /> worked great for me in ff and ie

one got-ya i discovered was if you have a target set on your form, the <base> tag didnt work and youre back to square one, so make sure you dont set a target on your form

Works like a champ! Thanks!

You saved my day :) thank a ton

Great helped me a lot

<base target="_self" /> worked for me - thanks a bunch

its works fine. If you have master pages put

<base target="_self" /> after <title></title>

tag in the master page. It will works fine. Thanks a lot...

Many thanks, works like a charm.

Thanks a lot!

It saves lots of time

You saved my day, thanks heaps!!

Bloody hell I spent ages on this. Can't believe there was such a simple fix. Thank you.

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Thanks a ton.

<base target="_self" />

works for me.

Thanks a lot, this resolved my problem!!!

Yesssss Worked for me.

Thanks Friend.

you are genious, i spent so much time breaking my head. thanks so much.. thanks again :)

thanks man it did work for me.

<base target="_self" />

is not applicable for modelpop's. Use hidden frames as target in form. It will solve the problem

  <form id="form1" runat="server" target = "hiddenFrame">

  <iframe name="hiddenFrame" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="1" height="1">

</iframe>

Used this above code.it will work for modelpopup's

Thanks a lot...

Excellet. but not working.

Thx for this tips. Found it in a good moment!

Bdw, it works under IE 8.

saved my night, almost banged my head on the wall. thank you

I am new to web and always been developing desktop apps and now I have to build a web app. I need to build a page that is modal and by closing getting some responds back from the page. Could someone please help me with this issue?

Could some please post the entire code?

my email address is mehrdada@telus.net

Thanks a lot guys

If  i open SP Model dailog with html option. Button post back not working. Can u please share an example

Great help! on SP Modal Dialog.