link in a showModalDialog in the same window

try

<script>
name="mymodal"
</script>

<a href="..." target="mymodal"

or
<a href="..." target="_self"

Michel

you can't open links in a modalDialog - all requests from it are sent to the opener.
You could try this:
1. target the links to a hidden iframe in the main window
2. take the innerHTML of the document.body of the hidden iframe
3. replace the innerHTML of the modalDialog.

Ivan

<script>
window.name="mymodal"
</script>

<a href="test2.htm" target="mymodal">Test2</a>

Works!!

mplungian, your answer does not work. I tried the thing with the iframe, but got stuck could you be a little more precise, as I am not a professional in javascript

mplungian, your answer does not work. I tried the thing with the iframe, but got stuck could you be a little more precise, as I am not a professional in javascript

the problem is as soon as I am in the ShowModalDialog Window i cannot get access to the iframe of the main document. I was able to write into the hidden frame, but I cloud not read out of it. And how can I write into the ShowModalDialog via JavaScript?

"This dialog has some links, which should open in the same ModalDialogWindow"

IN the page in the modal dialog have this:

<script>
name="mymodal"
</script>

<a href="..." target="mymodal"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/showmodaldialog.asp

Here is and example:


Parent:
<form name="myForm">
<input type="text" name="myField" value="Hello">
</form>

<a href="xx.htm" onClick="alert(window.showModalDialog(this.href, window)); return false">Click</a>



Modal:

<a href="#" onClick="alert(window.dialogArguments.document.myForm.myField.value); returnValue='Hello from modal'; self.close(); return false">Click</a>

Okay I figured everything out and it works.
1. I write the link of the ShowModalWindow in the hidden frame of the opener.
2. I have access to this hidden frame and the InnerHTMl as well as to the innerText
3. last but not least I do not know how to write this innerHTML into the ShowModal Window and how to clear the old text of the ShowModal Window

3. last but not least I do not know how to write this innerHTML into the ShowModal Window and how to clear the old text of the ShowModal Window

modalDialog.document.body.innerHTML = opener.hiddenFrame.document.body.innerHTML

Ivan

mplungjan thanks a lot I solved the Problem.
I can write into and read out of the iframe of the main window