Question

I’m using Kendo UI’s window component, which is similar to any modal dialog.

I have a close button in it, how do I close the window upon clicking that button (instead of clicking the default ‘x’ button in the title bar)

The content in my window is loaded from another view

@(Html.Kendo().Window()
           .Name("window")
           .Title("Role")
           .Content("loading...")
           .LoadContentFrom("Create", "RolesPermissions", Model.Role)
           .Modal(true)
           .Width(550)           
           .Height(300)           
           .Draggable()
           .Visible(false)
          )

In that same view, I have

<span id="close" class="btn btn-inverse">Cancel</span>

This is what I have in my main view (the view calling the window)

$(document).ready(function () {
    var window = $("#window").data("kendoWindow");

    $("#open").click(function (e) {
        window.center();
        window.open();
    });

    $("#close").click(function(e) {
        window.close();
    });
});

Answer 1

Basically you already know how to close the window – you need to do it with the close method of its API.

$("#window").data("kendoWindow").close();

But in order to attach the handler to the button inside of the view you need to wait until the content is loaded – you need to use the refresh event.

e.g.

$('#theWindowId').data().kendoWindow.bind('refresh',function(e){
    var win = this;
    $('#close').click(function(){
         win.close();
    })
})