is it possible two modalbox in html page

[absprogrammer]

Hi, I am using following code for modalbox. window.showModalDialog but i want handle two modal boxes at a time. I want know is it possible two modalbox for a HTML page, IE6.0. If yes how to handle them. Thanks in advance.

[Mark J Miller]

I doubt it. The idea of a modal dialog is to force the user to interact with that dialog and prevent interaction with any other component or window until the modal is closed. You may need to ask why you want to show 2 modals simultaneously and find a more useable alternative. Maybe make the modal window follow a wizard model.

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[led mike]

Mark J. Miller wrote:

You may need to ask why you want to show 2 modals simultaneously

Exactly, because all problems are not nails therefore not every solution is a hammer.

led mike

[Shog9 0]

One modal dialog is one modal dialog too many. What do you think two would be? ...ask yourself this: have you ever been browsing the web and stopped to think, "Hey, this is all just too easy - what i need right now is at least one dialog box that prevents me from navigating until i make it go away!"

[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

absprogrammer wrote:

but i want handle two modal boxes at a time.

Weird. The user has to dispose a modal dialog to proceed with any operation. Two concurrent modal dialogs would be a wild goose chase or impossible.

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[absprogrammer]

Hi, Thanks for replying. my issue is I am working on web application in which i'm showing a pop up dialog as modal box. but when application is ideal for some time a lockscreen modal dialog appears. Thus I cannot access html page but i can access popup modal box which should not happen. lock screen is also a modalbox. So i want to handle two modalbox. please suggest if any alternative for this. Thnaks in advance.