How to Show modal popup in mvc3? - asp.net-mvc-3-areas

Question

I need to show details on the popup. I don't have any idea how to do this. I need to do it in a MVC3 Razor view.
my Controller-
public ViewResult ViewDetail(Int32 id)
{
var q = from p in db.accs
where p.id == id
select p;
return View(q.FirstOrDefault());
}
my View-
<td># Html.ActionLink("View Detail", "ViewDetail", new { id=item.id }) </td>

Answer 1

use the Jquery UI ModalForm to show up your data.
Say you want to display the following in Modal pop-up of jquery .
<div id="displayinmodal">
<input type="file" id="file" name="file" />
<input type="submit" id="submitdata" value="Upload" />
</div>
Now write your jquery like this.
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#displayinmodal").dialog({ //displayinmodal is the id of the div you want to display in modal popup
autoOpen: true
});
});
</script>
That's it. you should get Modal popup in your browser.
Hope this helps

Answer 2

This kind of task isn't really what ASP.NET MVC / Razor does. Consider using a Javascript library like JQuery UI Dialog. You have to add several of the JQuery UI scripts to your page, but the payoff is a very simple API; you can create a basic dialog out of any HTML element (say with id mydiv) with one line of code:
$( "#mydiv" ).dialog();
And of course there are customizations and themes you can apply.
Of course, you could simply use the Javascript:
alert("my details here");
to get a basic modal popup, but I'm guessing that's not what you want.

Answer 3

If you want a simple no frills modal (with not much content) you can use a JavaScript alert like so:
alert('Hello from a modal popup');
If you would like a prettier option a common solution is to use jQuery UI's dialog which allows for a modal option. Take a look here for a demo of what you get with this option:
http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal
The code is pretty simple; the below should do everything for you using Google's CDN as a source for the scripts and stock jQuery UI CSS:
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.18/jquery-ui.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.21/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$( "#details" ).dialog({
modal: true
});
});
</script>
<div id="details">
Hello from a modal popup
</div>