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August 15, 2001 Generating Modeless Dialog Boxes  Tips: August 2001
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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When creating a new window, Internet Explorer lets you generate two types of windows. The first type retains the input focus while open and is referred to as a modal dialog box. The second type of dialog box is referred to as a modeless dialog box. A modeless dialog box allows you to switch the input focus to another window. It continues to display even when you switch to other applications. A modeless dialog box is useful for menus and help systems. It allows the user to use the dialog box and the application window concurrently. You create a modeless dialog box with showModelessDialog(). To show 010815.html, for example, in a modeless dialog box, you would go:
This button is defined as follows:
fnOpenModeless() is defined as:
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