Question

I’m trying to come up with a way to load a url, (https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action in this case) in a jQueryUI dialog box instead of a traditional popup window.

So far, I’ve tried pulling in the page using an AJAX (AJAH :D) request, but each time, I get a status 200 but no data.

Here is the code from what I’ve tried: http://jsfiddle.net/Handyman/aXPU7/1/

I had thought that maybe the don’t allow ajax requests to usps.com, but I tried a couple of my own sites with the same luck.

Is it even possible to do this without an iframe or a traditional style popup?

Answer 1

Might be easier to use a lightbox plugin like colorbox, jsFiddle.

$('#zipcode_lookup').colorbox({iframe:true, innerWidth:425, innerHeight:344});