along with window.open there are 2 other window opening functions window.showModalDialog() and window.showModellessDialog()
Thanks Kamesh Kompella (847) 935-3692 -----Original Message----- From: Peter Foreman The issue here is not ASP.Net, but HTML and browser standards. There is no standard, flexible equivalent of dialogs, and certainly no equivalent of modal dialogs. The high degree of navigational flexibilty presented to users by browsers makes trying to do this as pleasantly as in thick client apps very hard. IMHO it is best to avoid any design that requires it, and think of a different idiom for what you are trying to do... :-( Having said that, some people use layers (in Netscape) or iframes (in IE), or pop-up sub-windows (window.open in Javascript). Beware of browser specific issues with them. Pop-up sub-windows are the most widely used and supported of these, but inter-window communications can be a pain. (My web based mail uses sub-windows to insert addresses from the address book for instance). --- "Dawid Greyvenstein [AST EH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the best (most pure) way of creating ASP.NET dialog forms? (The > equivalent of Form.ShowDialog() in windows forms). > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
