Thursday, September 30, 2010

Re: opening a popup window when clicking on a link

On Thu, September 30, 2010 2:03 pm, Tomfox Wiranata wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> in my view I have a link:
> echo $html->link('My
> Favorites'...........);
>
>
> now when a user clicks the link i want a popup window to open and show
> data from the database with the ajax paginator. but how can i open a
> new window as a popup??

doing this will require client side js.

you could look at jquery ui modal
http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal-message

bear in mind there are users that cant launch new windows or modal boxes
(mobile users for example) so provide an inpage way to do it and then
enhance with javascript accordingly.

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