Looking for an alternative to window.showModalDialog

The app I am working on used windows.showModalDialog which depreciated, so I replaced it with window,.open which workd fine but with one issue - it is not modal. I have found that one can use window.open Dialog instead but replacing window.open with window.openDialog broke my links.

I had 

    ret = window.open(target, "", "scrollbars=no,location=no,statusbar=no,menubar=no,resizable=no,width=500,height=300");

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which worked, so I tried:

    ret = window.openDialog(target, "", "scrollbars=no,location=no,statusbar=no,menubar=no,resizable=no,width=500,height=300");

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which did not.


I was also looking into using JQuery UI dialog or AJAX dialog, but it seems that those would just display  limited content that you specify and I need to display an actual page. Can anyone help?
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Big MontyWeb Ninja at largeCommented:
i like bootbox:

http://bootboxjs.com/

it's easy to set up and configure, and gives you some pre-set options. Of course, it works best with bootstrap...

i've also liked Lightview (http://projects.nickstakenburg.com/lightview), again, easy to use and the documentation was great...

you can use jquery modal to load another page, something like this should work:

// initialize dialog
var dlg = $("#dialog").dialog({ autoOpen: false,
  height: 600,
  width: 350
});

// load content and open dialog
dlg.load('url/to/otherPage').dialog('open');

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YZlatAuthor Commented:
@Big Monty, what type of control is #dialog? is it a div?
Big MontyWeb Ninja at largeCommented:
it can be, its the markup for your dialog box. in this case, it can be just an empty div on your page
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YZlatAuthor Commented:
I have tried your example but all that appeared on the page on click of a link is a close button. No content was shown  

<html>
<head>
 <script src="Script\jquery-2.2.0.js"></script>
  <script src="Script\jquery-ui-1.8.24.js"></script>
 <script>
 $( document ).ready(function() {
$("#hlk1").click(function(){ 
	// initialize dialog
var dlg = $("#dialog").dialog({ autoOpen: false,
  height: 600,
  width: 350
});

// load content and open dialog
dlg.load('www.google.com').dialog('open');
});
});

 </script>

</head>
<body>
<a href="#" id="hlk1" >Click here</a>
<div id="dialog">
  
</div>
</body>
</html>

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Big MontyWeb Ninja at largeCommented:
your fiddle there is no reference to jquery, can you fix and then resend?
YZlatAuthor Commented:
I got it to work. I replaced www.google.com by test.html. there is only one thing - in Chrome I got an error message 

XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///C:/Users/MyUser/Desktop/test.html. Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome, chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource.

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How could these be cross origin requests if both files are in the same folder on the same machine?
Big MontyWeb Ninja at largeCommented:
whats the code?
YZlatAuthor Commented: 
<html>
<head>
 <script src="Scripts\jquery-2.2.0.js"></script>
  <script src="Scripts\jquery-ui-1.8.24.js"></script>
 <script>
 $( document ).ready(function() {
$("#hlk1").click(function(){ 
	// initialize dialog
var dlg = $("#dialog").dialog({ autoOpen: false,
  height: 600,
  width: 350
});

// load content and open dialog
dlg.load('test.html').dialog('open');
});
});

 
 
 </script>

</head>
<body>
<a href="#" id="hlk1" >Click here</a>
<div id="dialog">
  
</div>
</body>
</html>

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Big MontyWeb Ninja at largeCommented:
I'm not sure why thats happening, if the file is located in your root folder. I would open another question up and see if other experts have any ideas...
YZlatAuthor Commented:
Just a side note for anyone who has the same issue. "Cross origin requests are only supported for protocol schemes: http, data, chrome, chrome-extension, https, chrome-extension-resource." as suggested by error, I needed to use one of the listed prorocols to be able to send cross-origin requests. So I created a project on localhost and cross-origin request worked fine.


Thanks Big Monty! You have been a great help
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