Question

I want to pop up a panel when a “createbutton” is clicked, I am using a panel and adding some textbox and buttons inside the panel. I am able to make the pop up panel by designing it in the same page where the createbutton is present. can I make the pop up in a separate page and make it pop up when I click the createbutton

Answer 1

Gokul,

Yes, you can put the panel in a separate page and make it appear when you click the create button. Here’s one alternative (not my favorite but it doesn’t depend on anything extra besides standard javascript):

• When you click the “create button” open a new browser window resized exactly to match the panel’s size. This can be done with javascript easily as follows:

  <
  input onclick=”javascript:window.open(‘page.aspx’,’title’,’status=0,toolbar=0,width=350,height=250′);”
  type=”button” value=”Create” />

• On the page that you popped up containing the panel (pagecontainingPanel.aspx – according to my example), you can have code to close the window once you perform some action. For example, if you have a button that’s supposed to save some data to the database and comeback to the parent page, you could do something like:

{

  ///Perform server side process. If successfully executed close this window. 
  protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
  if(EverythingOK) 
        { 
           StringBuilder cstext2 = new StringBuilder();
  cstext2.Append("<script type=\"text/javascript\"> function CloseMe() {");
  cstext2.Append("window.close();} </");
  cstext2.Append("script>");
  cs.RegisterStartupScript(cstype, csname2, cstext2.ToString(), false);
        } 

    }