JQuery SimpleModal - Newbie here trying to get a simple asp form to open up in a modal window.

Question

I found it very easy to implement modal windows that included an html or asp page in it with facebox but I wanted to give SimpleModal a try.

I was trying to learn how to use the Contact Form http://www.ericmmartin.com/simplemodal/ but realized it was only for php. I am a novice coder so please have some mercy. :) .

Anyhow what I was hoping to accomplish was to open up an asp page with a form in it. I tried to do this with facebox but the form was not submitting to the form page but rather to the parent window.

Is there a simple way way to do this? SimpleModal looks great but I found it so much harder to implement than facebox or thickbox. At least with facebox or thickbox I could load html or asp pages in the window. I do not see an easy option for SimpleModal on how to do that.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I'm sorry that you found SimpleModal difficult to use...my intention was for it to be simple ;)

If you want to use SimpleModal with asp, you should try using the appendTo option.

$(element).modal({appendTo:'form'});

To load external content into the dialog, you can do something like:

$.get("yourpage.html", function(data) {
    $(data).modal({appendTo:'form'});
});

I hope that helps.

-Eric