Restriction from child window to parent window

[rait]

Hello,
I have a parent window and a hyperlink would create another child pop up window ontop of it. I would like to restrict the user from clicking/accessing the parent window until they hit the "Save" or "Cancel" button in the child window. Can someone suggest me how I can accomplish it?

Thanks,
rait

 

[kaht]

2 options:

1) Use IE's showModalDialog. It only works in IE, so forget about any sort of cross browser compatibility.

2) Use an absolutely positioned div instead of the popup window. You can then put an invisible div with a z-index between the popup and the original page so that nothing on the bottom page can be accessed.

I'd go for option #2, but then again I never use any sort of popup windows - only absolutely positioned divs.

Here's an example:

http://www.wingo.com/dialogbox/index.html

-kaht

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[Ascalonian]

Actually, if you use Dojo Toolkit [

http://www.dojotoolkit.com

], they have a Dialog in there that does just what you want. Very customizable as well. The library is also cross-browser.