In a specific page a user will press a button but on button press before the actual processing, I need occasionally to present to the user a list of options
to select the appropriate one and use that selection in order to be able to proceed the processing.
So essentially I need to display a pop-up window that shows a select
box with available options and get the user's selection and then continue processing.
So to do this I found that I need a combination of window->open/prompt/showModalDialog
I found a way to present a pop-up window to the user with the options via
var newWindow = window.open(, null, height=200,width=400,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no);
newWindow.document.write(<select>);
newWindow.document.write(<option>);
newWindow.document.write(obj);
newWindow.document.write(</option>);
newWindow.document.write(</select>);
Example for passing just one option.
But I can not seem to find how to get back the selection.
The prompt
on the other hand returns the selection, but I don't think I can make it display my select
.
The showModalDialog
returns the selection, but seems to expect another web page as a parameter. So it is not suitable for me.
How can I create my pop-up using plain javascript?