need sample of jquery modal dialog content loaded from controller action

Question

My ASP.NET MVC app opens and displays the dialog fine however I can't figure out how to get DB content into it. I have read about making an ajax call to get the data. My disconnect is how it gets displayed in my . Any links where this is done (full code).

Thanks.

Answer 1

You have to create a different action that returns the "DB content":

public SomeController : Controller 
{
  public ActionResult DatabaseData()
  {
    var model = getDatabaseData();
    return View(model);
  }
}

And create the corresponding view, that displays the data in a div.

After this you can load the result of this action in your dialog:

$('#id-of-dialog-element')
  .load('<%=Url.Action("DatabaseData", "SomeController")%>')
  .dialog('open');

Alternatively, you could return the DB data as JSON and render the data in a table on the client.

Answer 2

I am closing this and opening another more specific issue. Thanks.