Introduction
This article shows a modal popup dialog window which passes and returns multiple parameters. This sample creates parent and child webforms. The child webform is called modally by the parent passing multiple values to the child form. The child form displays the passed values allowing them to be edited and then returns the altered values back to the parent when finished. The child form is modal to only the parent form. To make the child modal to the entire desktop, see the below final note.
Scope
ASP, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, Visual Basic, Java
Steps
- Open a New Web project in Visual Studio
- Create two New
WebForm
pages namedParentWebForm
andChildWebForm
- Open the HTML surface for the
ParentWebForm
- Locate the yellow line
- Delete all code EXCEPT the yellow line
- Insert the following HTML below the existing yellow line
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <title>Parent Webform</title> <script language="javascript"> function OpenChild() { var ParmA = retvalA.value; var ParmB = retvalB.value; var ParmC = retvalC.value; var MyArgs = new Array(ParmA, ParmB, ParmC); var WinSettings = "center:yes;resizable:no;dialogHeight:300px" //ALTER BELOW LINE - supply correct URL for Child Form var MyArgs = window.showModalDialog( "http://localhost/ModalWin/ChildWebForm.aspx", MyArgs, WinSettings); if (MyArgs == null) { window.alert( "Nothing returned from child. No changes made to input boxes") } else { retvalA.value=MyArgs[0].toString(); retvalB.value=MyArgs[1].toString(); retvalC.value=MyArgs[2].toString(); } } </script> </HEAD> <body> <P><INPUT id="retvalA" type="text" value="AAA"></P> <P><INPUT id="retvalB" type="text" value="BBB"></P> <P><INPUT id="retvalC" type="text" value="CCC"></P> <P><BUTTON onclick="OpenChild()" type="button"> Open Child Window</BUTTON> </P> </body> </HTML>
- In the above code, locate the line saying //ALTER BELOW LINE
- Supply the correct URL for your
ChildWebform
- Open the HTML surface for the
ChildWebForm
- Locate the yellow line
- Delete all code EXCEPT the yellow line
- Insert the following HTML below the existing yellow line
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Child Webform</TITLE> <script language="javascript"> function Done() { var ParmA = tbParamA.value; var ParmB = tbParamB.value; var ParmC = tbParamC.value; var MyArgs = new Array(ParmA, ParmB, ParmC); window.returnValue = MyArgs; window.close(); } function doInit() { var ParmA = "Aparm"; var ParmB = "Bparm"; var ParmC = "Cparm"; var MyArgs = new Array(ParmA, ParmB, ParmC); MyArgs = window.dialogArguments; tbParamA.value = MyArgs[0].toString(); tbParamB.value = MyArgs[1].toString(); tbParamC.value = MyArgs[2].toString(); } </script> </HEAD> <BODY onload="doInit()"> <P>Param A:<INPUT id="tbParamA" TYPE="text"></P> <P>Param B:<INPUT ID="tbParamB" TYPE="text"></P> <P>Param C:<INPUT ID="tbParamC" TYPE="text"></P> <BUTTON onclick="Done()" type="button">OK</BUTTON> </BODY> </HTML>
- Set the project StartUp page to be the Parent Webform
- Run the project.
Final Note
To make the child modal to the entire desktop, you'll need add code to the
child which uses <body onblur="this.focus">.