Jquery Modal Dialog displaying MVC3 partial view - works first click only

Question

 public ActionResult MeanQ(int id)
{            
    Access access= db.Access.Find(id);
    return PartialView("_MeanQPartial", access);
}

The partial view thats being rendered in the above code is displayed in a Dialog Modal (Jquery)...The link(onclick) that displays the partial view in a Jquery Modal Dialog works well for the first click. Once I close that dialog and click on the link again, the Partial View does not open as expected in a pop up form. It opens as a new page in the browser. How can I make the pop up modal dialog link work the same way every time?

Javascript code is below (Jquery Modal Dialog):

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
    //initialize the dialog
    $("#result").dialog({ width: 400, resizable: true, position: 'center', title: 'Access info', autoOpen: false,
        buttons: { "Ok": function () { $(this).dialog("close"); } }
    });
});

$(function () {
    $('#modal').click(function () {
        //load the content from this.href, then turn it into a dialog.

        $('#result').load(this.href).dialog('open');
        return false;
    });
});

HTML Link that triggers the modal dialog:

@Html.ActionLink("PopUp", "MeanQ", new { id = item.AccID }, new { id = "modal" })

Answer 1

Recently I also faced a slimier problem where I wanted to use both partial and full razor view. I followed following article to implement my Modal Dialog. And it worked fine.

http://www.matthidinger.com/archive/2011/02/22/Progressive-enhancement-tutorial-with-ASP-NET-MVC-3-and-jQuery.aspx

Answer 2

Without knowing your JavaScript, my guess is you are somehow replacing the <a/> element when loading the PartialView since you mention the <a/> does the default action after loading the modal.

e.g.

$("#someA").click(function(){
  //loads the modal and replaces #someA
});

Try using .live():

$("#someA").live("click", function(){
  //loads the modal and replaces #someA, but still works since you used live()
});

Even better if the element has a common parent, you can use .delegate()

$("#someParentOfA").delegate("#someA", "click", function(){

});

Answer 3

Are you using MVC3? Instead of returning an "ActionResult" it might help if you return a "PartialViewResult".