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Nov 07.2004

Hey guys,
So i want to close the child modal window when the users clicks on the a submit button that is also located in the same child modal window. I am currently using this line to open the modal window.

var entry_win= window
entry_win = window.showModalDialog(“AddPerson.htm”,”Add”, “dialogWidth=205px;dialogHeight=280px;resizab
le:yes;dialogLeft:100;dialogTop:100″);

I added self.close()and window.close() in the child modal window, but that just seemed to open another window and load the child modal page again.

Can anyone help?

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@7studNov 07.2004 — Hi,

window.close() worked fine for me. This is what my popup page looked like:
<i>
</i>&lt;!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;

&lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xml:lang="en" lang="en"&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Web Design 1&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta name="author" content="Mr. Smith, I presume" /&gt;
&lt;meta name="description" content="web" /&gt;
&lt;script language="javascript"&gt;
&lt;!-- Hide from browsers lacking javascript

window.onload=function()
{
document.getElementById("b1").onclick=function(){window.close()};

};

// End hiding --&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;

&lt;div&gt;some text&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;input type="submit" name="b1" value="submit" /&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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@7studNov 07.2004 — I see what you're saying now. ? It has to do with the 'action' attribute of the form for the submit button. I don't have a solution.
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@orweiauthorNov 08.2004 — SO i discovered that the child modal window with the submit cannot be a type=submit. Instead it must be a type=button for it to work properly. This was a very odd bug to find, but luckly my awesome roomate suggested such a fix.

Later,

orwei
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@7studNov 08.2004 — But, then how do you submit the data? Or, do you not have any data, and you just want the window to close on the click of a button?
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