We have a huge web application where we use window.showmodaldialog for alerts, confirmations and popups. Since Chrome version 37 this call has been disabled.
Is there any quick workaround to make window.showmodaldialog work in the latest version of Chrome?
I am adding here a workaround for window.showmodaldialog, although this is not a perfect workaround because this will not break the code execution as showmodaldialog was doing, instead this will open the popups.
window.showModalDialog = function (url, arg, feature) {
var opFeature = feature.split(";");
var featuresArray = new Array()
if (document.all) {
for (var i = 0; i < opFeature.length - 1; i++) {
var f = opFeature[i].split("=");
featuresArray[f[0]] = f[1];
}
}
else {
for (var i = 0; i < opFeature.length - 1; i++) {
var f = opFeature[i].split(":");
featuresArray[f[0].toString().trim().toLowerCase()] = f[1].toString().trim();
}
}
var h = "200px", w = "400px", l = "100px", t = "100px", r = "yes", c = "yes", s = "no";
if (featuresArray["dialogheight"]) h = featuresArray["dialogheight"];
if (featuresArray["dialogwidth"]) w = featuresArray["dialogwidth"];
if (featuresArray["dialogleft"]) l = featuresArray["dialogleft"];
if (featuresArray["dialogtop"]) t = featuresArray["dialogtop"];
if (featuresArray["resizable"]) r = featuresArray["resizable"];
if (featuresArray["center"]) c = featuresArray["center"];
if (featuresArray["status"]) s = featuresArray["status"];
var modelFeature = "height = " + h + ",width = " + w + ",left=" + l + ",top=" + t + ",model=yes,alwaysRaised=yes" + ",resizable= " + r + ",celter=" + c + ",status=" + s;
var model = window.open(url, "", modelFeature, null);
model.dialogArguments = arg;
}
Just put this code in the head section of page.
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The window.showModalDialog is deprecated (Intent to Remove: window.showModalDialog(), Removing showModalDialog from the Web platform). [...]The latest plan is to land the showModalDialog removal in Chromium 37. This means the feature will be gone in Opera 24 and Chrome 37, both of which should be released in September.[...]
From http://codecorner.galanter.net/2014/09/02/reenable-showmodaldialog-in-chrome/
It's deprecated by design. You can re-enable showModalDialog support, but only temporarily – until May of 2015. Use this time to create alternative solutions.
Here’s how to do it in Chrome for Windows. Open Registry Editor (regedit) and create following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\EnableDeprecatedWebPlatformFeatures
Under the EnableDeprecatedWebPlatformFeatures key create a string value with name 1 and value of ShowModalDialog_EffectiveUntil20150430. To verify that the policy is enabled, visit chrome://policy URL.
gpedit.mscor using these utilities on Home editions of windows: http://blogs.technet.com/b/fdcc/archive/2008/05/07/lgpo-utilities.aspx)I use a polyfill that seem to do a good job.
I put the following javascript in the page header and it seems to work. It detects when the browser does not support showModalDialog and attaches a custom method that uses window.open, parses the dialog specs (height, width, scroll, etc.), centers on opener and sets focus back to the window (if focus is lost). Also, it uses the URL as the window name so that a new window is not opened each time. If you are passing window args to the modal you will need to write some additional code to fix that. The popup is not modal but at least you don't have to change a lot of code. Might need some work for your circumstances.
<script type="text/javascript">
// fix for deprecated method in Chrome 37
if (!window.showModalDialog) {
window.showModalDialog = function (arg1, arg2, arg3) {
var w;
var h;
var resizable = "no";
var scroll = "no";
var status = "no";
// get the modal specs
var mdattrs = arg3.split(";");
for (i = 0; i < mdattrs.length; i++) {
var mdattr = mdattrs[i].split(":");
var n = mdattr[0];
var v = mdattr[1];
if (n) { n = n.trim().toLowerCase(); }
if (v) { v = v.trim().toLowerCase(); }
if (n == "dialogheight") {
h = v.replace("px", "");
} else if (n == "dialogwidth") {
w = v.replace("px", "");
} else if (n == "resizable") {
resizable = v;
} else if (n == "scroll") {
scroll = v;
} else if (n == "status") {
status = v;
}
}
var left = window.screenX + (window.outerWidth / 2) - (w / 2);
var top = window.screenY + (window.outerHeight / 2) - (h / 2);
var targetWin = window.open(arg1, arg1, 'toolbar=no, location=no, directories=no, status=' + status + ', menubar=no, scrollbars=' + scroll + ', resizable=' + resizable + ', copyhistory=no, width=' + w + ', height=' + h + ', top=' + top + ', left=' + left);
targetWin.focus();
};
}
</script>
function _showModalDialog(url, width, height, closeCallback) {
var modalDiv,
dialogPrefix = window.showModalDialog ? 'dialog' : '',
unit = 'px',
maximized = width === true || height === true,
w = width || 600,
h = height || 500,
border = 5,
taskbar = 40, // windows taskbar
header = 20,
x,
y;
if (maximized) {
x = 0;
y = 0;
w = screen.width;
h = screen.height;
} else {
x = window.screenX + (screen.width / 2) - (w / 2) - (border * 2);
y = window.screenY + (screen.height / 2) - (h / 2) - taskbar - border;
}
var features = [
'toolbar=no',
'location=no',
'directories=no',
'status=no',
'menubar=no',
'scrollbars=no',
'resizable=no',
'copyhistory=no',
'center=yes',
dialogPrefix + 'width=' + w + unit,
dialogPrefix + 'height=' + h + unit,
dialogPrefix + 'top=' + y + unit,
dialogPrefix + 'left=' + x + unit
],
showModal = function (context) {
if (context) {
modalDiv = context.document.createElement('div');
modalDiv.style.cssText = 'top:0;right:0;bottom:0;left:0;position:absolute;z-index:50000;';
modalDiv.onclick = function () {
if (context.focus) {
context.focus();
}
return false;
}
window.top.document.body.appendChild(modalDiv);
}
},
removeModal = function () {
if (modalDiv) {
modalDiv.onclick = null;
modalDiv.parentNode.removeChild(modalDiv);
modalDiv = null;
}
};
// IE
if (window.showModalDialog) {
window.showModalDialog(url, null, features.join(';') + ';');
if (closeCallback) {
closeCallback();
}
// Other browsers
} else {
var win = window.open(url, '', features.join(','));
if (maximized) {
win.moveTo(0, 0);
}
// When charging the window.
var onLoadFn = function () {
showModal(this);
},
// When you close the window.
unLoadFn = function () {
window.clearInterval(interval);
if (closeCallback) {
closeCallback();
}
removeModal();
},
// When you refresh the context that caught the window.
beforeUnloadAndCloseFn = function () {
try {
unLoadFn();
}
finally {
win.close();
}
};
if (win) {
// Create a task to check if the window was closed.
var interval = window.setInterval(function () {
try {
if (win == null || win.closed) {
unLoadFn();
}
} catch (e) { }
}, 500);
if (win.addEventListener) {
win.addEventListener('load', onLoadFn, false);
} else {
win.attachEvent('load', onLoadFn);
}
window.addEventListener('beforeunload', beforeUnloadAndCloseFn, false);
}
}
}
Yes, It's deprecated. Spent yesterday rewriting code to use Window.open and PostMessage instead.
This article (Why is window.showModalDialog deprecated? What to use instead?) seems to suggest that showModalDialog has been deprecated.
I wouldn't try to temporarily enable a deprecated feature. According to the MDN documentation for showModalDialog, there's already a polyfill available on Github.
I just used that to add windows.showModalDialog to a legacy enterprise application as a userscript, but you can obviously also add it in the head of the HTML if you have access to the source.
The window.returnValue property does not work directly when you are opening a window using window.open() while it does work when you are using window.showModalDialog()
So in your case you have two options to achieve what you are trying to do.
Option 1 - Using window.showModalDialog()
In your parent page
var answer = window.showModalDialog(<your page and other arguments>)
if (answer == 1)
{ do some thing with answer }
and inside your child page you can make use of the window.returnValue directly like
window.returnValue = 'value that you want to return';
showModalDialog halts the executions of the JavaScript until the dialog box is closed and can get a return value from the opened dialog box when its closing.But the problem with showModalDialog is that it is not supported on many modern browsers. In contrast window.open just opens a window asynchronously (User can access both the parent window and the opened window). And the JavaScript execution will continue immediately. Which bring us to Option 2
Option 2 - Using window.open() In your parent page write a function that deals with opening of your dialog.
function openDialog(url, width, height, callback){
if(window.showModalDialog){
options = 'dialogHeight: '+ height + '; dialogWidth: '+ width + '; scroll=no'
var returnValue = window.showModalDialog(url,this,options);
callback(returnValue)
}
else {
options ='toolbar=no, directories=no, location=no, status=yes, menubar=no, resizable=yes, scrollbars=no, width=' + width + ', height=' + height;
var childWindow = window.open(url,"",options);
$(childWindow).on('unload',function(){
if (childWindow.isOpened == null) {
childWindow.isOpened = 1;
}
else {
if(callback){
callback(childWindow.returnValue);
}
}
});
}
}
And whenever you want to use open a dialog. Write a callback that deals with the return value and pass it as a parameter to openDialog function
function callback(returnValue){
if(returnValue){
do something nice with the returnValue
}}
And when calling the function
openDialog(<your page>, 'width px', 'height px', callbak);
Check out an article on how to replace window.showModalDialog with window.open
A very good, and working, javascript solution is provided here : https://github.com/niutech/showModalDialog
I personnally used it, works like before for other browser and it creates a new dialog for chrome browser.
Here is an example on how to use it :
function handleReturnValue(returnValue) {
if (returnValue !== undefined) {
// do what you want
}
}
var myCallback = function (returnValue) { // callback for chrome usage
handleReturnValue(returnValue);
};
var returnValue = window.showModalDialog('someUrl', 'someDialogTitle', 'someDialogParams', myCallback);
handleReturnValue(returnValue); // for other browsers except Chrome
(function() {
window.spawn = window.spawn || function(gen) {
function continuer(verb, arg) {
var result;
try {
result = generator[verb](arg);
} catch (err) {
return Promise.reject(err);
}
if (result.done) {
return result.value;
} else {
return Promise.resolve(result.value).then(onFulfilled, onRejected);
}
}
var generator = gen();
var onFulfilled = continuer.bind(continuer, 'next');
var onRejected = continuer.bind(continuer, 'throw');
return onFulfilled();
};
window.showModalDialog = window.showModalDialog || function(url, arg, opt) {
url = url || ''; //URL of a dialog
arg = arg || null; //arguments to a dialog
opt = opt || 'dialogWidth:300px;dialogHeight:200px'; //options: dialogTop;dialogLeft;dialogWidth;dialogHeight or CSS styles
var caller = showModalDialog.caller.toString();
var dialog = document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('dialog'));
dialog.setAttribute('style', opt.replace(/dialog/gi, ''));
dialog.innerHTML = '<a href="#" id="dialog-close" style="position: absolute; top: 0; right: 4px; font-size: 20px; color: #000; text-decoration: none; outline: none;">×</a><iframe id="dialog-body" src="' + url + '" style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></iframe>';
document.getElementById('dialog-body').contentWindow.dialogArguments = arg;
document.getElementById('dialog-close').addEventListener('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
dialog.close();
});
dialog.showModal();
//if using yield
if(caller.indexOf('yield') >= 0) {
return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
dialog.addEventListener('close', function() {
var returnValue = document.getElementById('dialog-body').contentWindow.returnValue;
document.body.removeChild(dialog);
resolve(returnValue);
});
});
}
//if using eval
var isNext = false;
var nextStmts = caller.split('\n').filter(function(stmt) {
if(isNext || stmt.indexOf('showModalDialog(') >= 0)
return isNext = true;
return false;
});
dialog.addEventListener('close', function() {
var returnValue = document.getElementById('dialog-body').contentWindow.returnValue;
document.body.removeChild(dialog);
nextStmts[0] = nextStmts[0].replace(/(window\.)?showModalDialog\(.*\)/g, JSON.stringify(returnValue));
eval('{\n' + nextStmts.join('\n'));
});
throw 'Execution stopped until showModalDialog is closed';
};
})()
;
**Explanation:
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The best way to deal with showModalDialog for older application conversions is use to `https://github.com/niutech/showModalDialog` inorder to work with show modal dialogs and if modal dailog has ajax calls you need to create object and set the parameters of function to object and pass below...before that check for browser and set the useragent...example: agentStr = navigator.userAgent; and then check for chrome
var objAcceptReject={}; // create empty object and set the parameters to object and send to the other functions as dialog when opened in chrome breaks the functionality
function rejectClick(index, transferId) {
objAcceptReject.index=index;
objAcceptReject.transferId=transferId;
agentStr = navigator.userAgent;
var msie = ua.indexOf("MSIE ");
if (msie > 0) // If Internet Explorer, return version number
{
var ret = window.showModalDialog("/abc.jsp?accept=false",window,"dialogHeight:175px;dialogWidth:475px;scroll:no;status:no;help:no");
if (ret=="true") {
doSomeClick(index);
}
} else if ((agentStr.indexOf("Chrome")) >- 1){
spawn(function() {
var ret = window.showModalDialog("/abcd.jsp?accept=false",window,"dialogHeight:175px;dialogWidth:475px;scroll:no;status:no;help:no");
if (ret=="true") {// create an object and store values in objects and send as parameters
doSomeClick(objAcceptReject.index);
}
});
}
else {
var ret = window.showModalDialog("/xtz.jsp?accept=false",window,"dialogHeight:175px;dialogWidth:475px;scroll:no;status:no;help:no");
if (ret=="true") {
doSomeClick(index);
}
}
Source: Stackoverflow.com