javascript - SimpleModal breaks ASP.Net Postbacks

Question

I'm using jQuery and SimpleModal in an ASP.Net project to make some nice dialogs for a web app. Unfortunately, any buttons in a modal dialog can no longer execute their postbacks, which is not really acceptable.

There is one source I've found with a workaround, but for the life of me I can't get it to work, mostly because I am not fully understanding all of the necessary steps.

I also have a workaround, which is to replace the postbacks, but it's ugly and probably not the most reliable. I would really like to make the postbacks work again. Any ideas?

UPDATE: I should clarify, the postbacks are not working because the Javascript used to execute the post backs has broken in some way, so nothing happens at all when the button is clicked.

Answer 1

Both of you were on the right track. What I realized is that SimpleModal appends the dialog to the body, which is outside ASP.Net's <form>, which breaks the functionality, since it can't find the elements.

To fix it, I just modified the SimpleModal source to append eveything to 'form' instead of 'body'. When I create the dialog, I also use the persist: true option, to make sure the buttons stay through opening and closing.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

UPDATE: Version 1.3 adds an appendTo option in the configuration for specifying which element the modal dialog should be appended to. Here are the docs.