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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
which worked, so I tried:
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?
I had
ret = window.open(target, "", "scrollbars=no,location=no,statusbar=no,menubar=no,resizable=no,width=500,height=300");
which worked, so I tried:
ret = window.openDialog(target, "", "scrollbars=no,location=no,statusbar=no,menubar=no,resizable=no,width=500,height=300");
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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