javascript – showModalDialog not returning value in Chrome

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In order to keep using showModalDialog in my page, I had to come up with my own workaround for the bug. So, here it is…

In Google Chrome, after a postback, showModalDialog always returns undefined. However, the window.opener property in the modal dialog points to the caller window, even after postbacks. So, I thought about putting the result of the dialog in the returnValue property of that caller window. And it works.

In the caller window:

var prevReturnValue = window.returnValue; // Save the current returnValue
window.returnValue = undefined;
var dlgReturnValue = window.showModalDialog(...);
if (dlgReturnValue == undefined) // We don't know here if undefined is the real result...
{
    // So we take no chance, in case this is the Google Chrome bug
    dlgReturnValue = window.returnValue;
}
window.returnValue = prevReturnValue; // Restore the original returnValue

At this point, use dlgReturnValue for further processing

In the modal dialog window:

if (window.opener)
{
    window.opener.returnValue = dateValue;
}
window.returnValue = dateValue;
self.close();

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