Opening a static Dialog

The layout of the Dialog is fully described by the referenced HTML template: either the default "#dialog_generic" of a specific one.

You can fully customize the rendering with CSS; the default styles are provided by static/frontend_forms/css/frontend_forms.css

dialog1 = new Dialog({
    dialog_selector: '#dialog_generic',
    html: '<h1>Static content goes here ...</h1>',
    width: '600px',
    min_height: '200px',
    title: '<i class="fa fa-calculator"></i> Select an object ...',
    footer_text: 'testing dialog ...',
    enable_trace: true
});

dialog1.open()

Opening a dynamic Dialog

In most cases, you will rather produce the dialog content dynamically.

To obtain that, just add an "url" option to the Djalog constructor, and it will be automatically used to obtain the Dialog content from the server via an Ajax call.

dialog1 = new Dialog({
    ...
    url: "/samples/simple-content",
    ...

Sometimes it is convenient to reuse the very same single view to render either a modal dialog, or a standalone HTML page.

This can be easily accomplished providing:

• an "inner" template which renders the content
• an "outer" container template which renders the full page, then includes the "inner" template
• in the view, detect the call context and render one or another

def simple_content2(request):

    # Either render only the modal content, or a full standalone page
    if request.is_ajax():
        template_name = 'frontend/includes/simple_content2_inner.html'
    else:
        template_name = 'frontend/includes/simple_content2.html'

    return render(request, template_name, {
    })

here, the "inner" template provides the content:

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-4">
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    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-4">
        <p>Vel aliquid facilis, sequi aliquid praesentium repellat dolor est maiores, voluptatem ex quisquam accusantium eius laboriosam quaerat est, temporibus molestiae quo voluptatem quam consectetur, nemo ut est harum assumenda maiores omnis nisi amet pariatur. In dicta sit nobis incidunt blanditiis, expedita corrupti fugit dicta suscipit sit ad quidem alias repudiandae hic. Impedit eum dolor amet quaerat sequi aliquid iure fugit officia mollitia, repellat id deserunt recusandae deleniti perspiciatis error tenetur facere expedita, asperiores optio quibusdam, aliquid dolore ab sequi, nisi ex quo nostrum nulla fugiat illum reprehenderit maiores.</p>
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-4">
        <p>Nisi modi voluptas quos vero reprehenderit corporis iure porro, impedit cupiditate labore omnis maxime, et laudantium voluptate voluptates nisi repellendus molestias atque aliquid quis? Modi maiores repudiandae et reiciendis odio minus totam, praesentium libero ab tempore earum iste voluptatum quisquam fugit possimus rerum.</p>
    </div>
</div>

while the "outer" one renders the full page:

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load static staticfiles i18n %}

{% block content %}
{% include 'frontend/includes/simple_content2_inner.html' %}
{% endblock content %}