New window being spawned from dialog page when button clicked on form

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i have the following .aspx file defined:
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<asp:TableCell><asp:button id="AddButton" Runat="server" Text="Add New Vessel..."</asp:button></asp:TableCell>
..... other tags here ...

i also have the following codebehind class code to set the action of the button on click to run a modal dialog as follows:

Page_Load
..... load code here ...
AddButton.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript:window.showModalDialog('AddClicked.aspx');return true;")
..... load code here...

finally the AddClicked.aspx page has another button on it and when the button on that page (dialog window) is clicked, a new window is automatically spawned (giving me a total of 3 windows: 1) the starting window, 2) the dialog window, 3) the spawned window. why is this happening? i don't want the dialog to spawn a new window when the button is clicked; i simply want the dialog page to refresh its contents. any help would be great...
 
another note...if i pull the addclicked.aspx button up in its own browser window (type localhost/app/addclicked.asp in the address bar rather than hosting it in a dialog window), clicking on the button in this case does not spawn another window ... i don't understand at this point what is happening

----- Patrick wrote: -----

i have the following .aspx file defined:
... other tags here ...
<asp:TableCell><asp:button id="AddButton" Runat="server" Text="Add New Vessel..."</asp:button></asp:TableCell>
... other tags here ...

i also have the following codebehind class code to set the action of the button on click to run a modal dialog as follows:

Page_Load
... load code here ...
AddButton.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript:window.showModalDialog('AddClicked.aspx');return true;")
... load code here...

finally the AddClicked.aspx page has another button on it and when the button on that page (dialog window) is clicked, a new window is automatically spawned (giving me a total of 3 windows: 1) the starting window, 2) the dialog window, 3) the spawned window. why is this happening? i don't want the dialog to spawn a new window when the button is clicked; i simply want the dialog page to refresh its contents. any help would be great...
 
You need to use smartNavigation, ie. set smartNavigation to true. Problem
with this is that smartNavigation causes a whole new set of problems, but if
your dialog is simple it should be OK.

Cathie

Patrick said:
another note...if i pull the addclicked.aspx button up in its own browser
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window (type localhost/app/addclicked.asp in the address bar rather than
hosting it in a dialog window), clicking on the button in this case does not
spawn another window ... i don't understand at this point what is happening
----- Patrick wrote: -----

i have the following .aspx file defined:
... other tags here ...
<asp:TableCell><asp:button id="AddButton" Runat="server" Text="Add
Click to expand...
New Vessel... said:
... other tags here ...

i also have the following codebehind class code to set the action of
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the button on click to run a modal dialog as follows:
Page_Load
... load code here ...
AddButton.Attributes.Add("onclick",
Click to expand...
"javascript:window.showModalDialog('AddClicked.aspx');return true;")
... load code here...

finally the AddClicked.aspx page has another button on it and when
Click to expand...
the button on that page (dialog window) is clicked, a new window is
automatically spawned (giving me a total of 3 windows: 1) the starting
window, 2) the dialog window, 3) the spawned window. why is this happening?
i don't want the dialog to spawn a new window when the button is clicked; i
simply want the dialog page to refresh its contents. any help would be
great...
 
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