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...