window.showModalDialog is not working on Netscape

[nomy]

window.showModalDialog is not working on Netscape....<br>It is working fine on Internet Explorer.<br>

 

[jaredn]

to my understanding. this method is not supported by any version of netscape<br><br><A HREF="mailto:jared@aauser.com">jared@aauser.com</A>

 

[rycamor]

You can accomplish essentially the same thing on Netscape, but you have to do a few tricks with window.open() and Javascript to emulate the showmodalDialog function.

 

[jaredn]

How do you do this ryc? A modal is a very difficult thing to fake (it stops the current thread of execution I think.)<br><br><br><A HREF="mailto:jared@aauser.com">jared@aauser.com</A>

 

[rycamor]

It would take a bit of work to emulate stopping the current thread of execution, but with Javascript, that's hardly ever a serious concern. Mainly what you want is a function that pops up a set of controls for the user to make choices, and then returns a value or array of values upon which to continue execution. <br><br>The IE showModaldialog() is just an HTML page wrapped in a dialog, with the nifty feature of being able to do:<br><br>window.returnValue=foo;<br>window.close();<br><br>It also prevents the user from doing anything else until the dialog is dealt with.<br><br>In Netscape, you would have to accomplish that with some trickery. In the &lt;body&gt; of the popup window you could do onblur=&quot;this.focus()&quot; to return the focus to the popup until it is closed. (I believe this will do the trick, but if not, let me know)<br><br>Secondly, rather than being able to set window.returnValue, you would just do something like<br><br>top.opener.my_returnvaluefunction(foo);<br>//where foo is your 'return' value<br>window.close();<br><br>So essentially, with IE, you can have one function, which is halted in the middle to make user choices. In Netscape, you would have two functions; one to set up the modal dialog, and the second to continue the stream of execution.

 

[nj5j]

showmodaldialog() is an extension introduced in IE 4. [sig][/sig]

 

[Guest_imported]

Below is the link to a site which explains very detailed how you can have a cross browser modal dialog.

http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/goodman_modal/goodman_modal.html