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Modern browsers have multi-tab interface, but JavaScript function window.showModalDialog() creates a modal dialog that blocks all of the tabs.
I’d like to know if there is a way to create a modal dialog that blocks only the tab it’s been created in?
You could use one of the more ‘Ajax-like’ modal dialogs, which are just absolute positioned divs, floating on top of everything else.
Those are modal to the ‘document’ and not the browser.
For instance take a look it this jQuery plugin
P.S.
showModalDialog()is an IE only call, so you might want to not use that altogether.