Issue in opening pop-up window by clicking button multiple times in MVC4?

Question

Hi i got issue in opening pop-up window multiple times while clicking button. I will explain my issue clearly.

Hi, this is my parent view Customer Form.I have one add button near to Area if i enter the CustomerName AddressType, Street, Location,Place and then select the area.Suppose if area is not in the list means i have to add that. so i click that add button it will open AreaPartial view as popup window.

After i enter the details and click the create button it will save the data in db and it shows the same popup window when it was close means when i click x mark[which is in the pop up window right top corner ) . Now all are working fine.

Now my issue is i open the pop-up window by clicking the button and add the area and close the pop-up window before clicking the main save button in parent view i have to add another one area so i click the add button again but it wont opening the pop-up window . This is my issue.

My Controller code to save the data which is entered in the partial view pop-up window

  public ActionResult AreaPartialView()
  {
    ViewBag.CityID = new SelectList(db.Cities, "CityID", "DisplayName");
    return View("AreaPartialView");
  }
   [HttpPost]

  public ActionResult AddAreaInfo(CustomerViewModel objareaVM)
   {
     var objAreaID = Guid.NewGuid();
     ViewBag.CityID = new SelectList(db.Cities, "CityID", "DisplayName", objareaVM.CityID);

     var ObjArea = new Area()
    {
    AreaID =objAreaID,
    DisplayName = objareaVM.Area,
    PrintName = objareaVM.Area,
    CityID = objareaVM.CityID,
    IsActive = true,
    IsDeleted = false,
    CreatedDate = DateTime.Now,
    EditedDate = DateTime.Now,
    LastActiveOn = DateTime.Now,
    RowID = Guid.NewGuid(),
    CreatedSessionID = Guid.NewGuid(),
    EditedSessionID = Guid.NewGuid(),
    OfflineMode = false,
    OfflineID = Guid.NewGuid()
    };

    db.Areas.Add(ObjArea);
    db.SaveChanges();
    ModelState.Clear();

  return Json(objAreaID);
   }

My j-query code to display the area partial view as popup window once the add button is clicked in Parent View

  <script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.10.2-ui.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet"href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" />

  <script type="text/javascript">
   $("#AddArea").click(function () {
   $('#AddAreaNew').dialog("open");
   });
   $(function () {
   $('#AddAreaNew').dialog({
   autoOpen: false,
   width: 400,
   height: 500,
   resizable: false,
   title: 'Add Area',
   modal: true,
   open: function (event, ui) {
       $(this).load("@Url.Action("AreaPartialView", "Customer")");
   },
   buttons: {
       "Close": function () {
           $(this).dialog("close");
       }
    }
    });
    });

My Partial View code

   @Html.Label("Area" , new { @class = "control-label" })
   @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Area, new { @class = "form-control", type = "text" ,id ="AreaName"})
   @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Area)

   @Html.Label("City")        
   @Html.DropDownList("CityID", null, "Select", new { @class = "form-control " })

 <script src="~/Scripts/jquery-1.10.4-ui.min.js"></script>
 <link href="~/Content/jquery-ui-1.10.4.custom.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
 <script src="~/Scripts/jquery-ui-1.8.24.min.js"></script>
 <script type="text/javascript">

  function SaveArea() {
  debugger;
  var Area = $("#AreaName").val();
  var CityID = $("#CityID").val();
  alert(Area);
  var AreaAdd = { "Area": '' +Area + '', "CityID": CityID };
   $.post("/Customer/AddAreaInfo", AreaAdd, function(data) { 
    var option = new Option(Area, data);
        $('#AreaID').append($(option));
        alert("sucess");
        window.close();
  });
  }

This is my issue i cant able to open my pop-up window multiple times.i tried my level best to explain my issue. please any one help me to solve this issue.

Advance thanks..

Answer 1

Perhaps something like this would help you, as a brief example.

<style>
.floatingbox
{
z-index:99999;
position:absolute;
/* and more of your styling here, the main point is to make to appear above any other element on the page */
}
</style>

<div class="floatingbox" id="inputbox">

</div>

EDIT: <input type="button" value="Add Field" onclick="WhenIGetClicked(this)"/>

function WhenIGetClicked(e)
{
RefershContent();
document.getElementbyId('input').style.left = e.style.left;
document.getElementbyId('input').style.top = e.style.top; // show div at position of button but you can change it to where-ever
}

function RefreshContent()
{
 // put your html in here for the different fields you'll need in the div 
document.getElementbyId('inputbox').innerHTML = '';
// add the rest of your html mark up but make it as a function so it can be 'refreshed' and look like a new blank form each time, i found this easier than making a partial view and having to deal with loading it into the div/messing with javascript inside the partial view but may be personal preference :)
}

function OnSaveClick()
{
var SomeValueYouWantToPass = document.getElementbyId('inputboxinsidethediv').value; // or innerHTML works sometimes too if it's not getting the value correctly

$.ajax({
type:post,
url: '/MyController/ActionName',
dataType: 'json',
data: { MyVariableOnTheControllerSide: SomeValueYouWantToPass },
success: function()
{
alert('hey it worked!'); // or refresh the page to load the new field, etc
}
)}

}
</script>

On the controller side now:

public JsonResult UpdateField(string MyVariableOnTheControllerSide)
{
//do something with the data. 
return Json('Hey it worked!', JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

If you'd like to pass it as a class since that's how you have it set up on your controller, you'll have to create the class as a Json object on the HTML markup side of it when grabbing the values (heck you could even do a for loop of the controls in the div and dynamically grab the values instead of reaching out to each element to get it's value). Very basic run down of how I usually do pop ups. Let me know if you need clarification or if I missed your point :)