Modal Dialog - SharePoint 2010

Question

I am currently working on creating a ModalPopUp for SharePoint Web Part.

I am facing compatibility issues with ModalPopupExtender (with IFrame).

What are the other options available in SharePoint 2010 or ASP.NET for getting a Modal Popup?

Note: I have tried ModalPopupExtender and OpenModalDialog.

Answer 1

Hi Spt2170,

I am not sure if I completely understand your question.

I did not have a chance to test SharePoint 2010 yet so I can only try to answer your questions based on my experience with WSS 3.

On WSS 3 we derived a custom master page as the default one was rendered in quirks mode (no DOCTYPE was specified). You can see if the browser renders your Intranet page in standard or quirks mode by pressing F12 in Internet Explorer 8 on your homepage.

With the MOSS page being rendered in standard mode we use jQuery for the modal dialog pop ups.

Take a look here for a demo dialog and see if this fits your requirements:

http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal

To add jQuery you can add the jQuery script to your masterpage and then call the popup like this by modifying one of the SharePoint pages through SharePoint designer:

    $("#dialog-modal").dialog({
        height: 140,
        modal: true
    });

If your page renders in quirks mode and you do not want to change the rendering you can still use jQuery and the impromptu plug-in from here:

http://trentrichardson.com/Impromptu/index.php

Kind regards,

Mathias

Answer 2

Take a look at the new dialog framework in SP2010:

http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2009/12/08/sharepoint-2010-dev-tidbit-ndash-want-to-create-your-own.aspx

http://www.endusersharepoint.com/EUSP2010/2010/05/27/client-side-ajax-applications-in-sharepoint-2010-%E2%80%93-part-5-modal-dialogs/

Answer 3

Here a good link that provide details about the Model Dialog of Share Point 2010

http://www.a2zmenu.com/SharePoint/SharePoint%202010%20Model%20Dialog.aspx