issues with ajax form inside jquery UI popup in IE8

I was experimenting with jQuery UI and MVC3 and I stumbled upon the following issue:

I have very basic page that uses AJAX

<%: Ajax.开发者_开发知识库ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id = 1 }, new AjaxOptions() { UpdateTargetId = "dialog", OnSuccess = "DisplayPopup" }, null)%>

<div id="dialog" title="Location">

</div>

This is the controller code:

    public ActionResult Edit(int id)
    {
        return PartialView();
    }

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Edit()
    {
        return Content("Saved!");
    }

and partial view edit:

<b>whatever</b>

<% using (Ajax.BeginForm("Edit", "Home",
    new AjaxOptions()
    {
        UpdateTargetId = "editForm",
        HttpMethod = "POST"
    }))
{%>
<div id="editForm">
    <input type="submit" value="Save" />
</div>
    <% } %>

the code above works fine.

now I add the jquery UI popup code:

<script type="text/javascript">
    function DisplayPopup() {
        $('#dialog').dialog('open');
    }

    $('#dialog').dialog({
        autoOpen: false,
        width: 600,
        modal: true,
        buttons: {
            "Close": function () {
                $(this).dialog("close");
            }
        }
    });
</script>

after that in Firefox and Chrome it works fine, whereas in IE8 I see the following issue:

1. click edit - makes AJAX call to Edit(int id) action and shows the edit view inside a popup
2. click save - makes AJAX call to Edit() and shows the text "Saved!"
3. close the popup
4. click edit - AJAX call to Edit(int id) - again
5. click save - this time it makes FULL postback (only in IE)

any ideas?

Thanks!

Try this seeing it works the first time but not the second. Create the dialog new every time and destroy it when you are done.

<script type="text/javascript">
    function DisplayPopup() {
        $('#dialog').dialog({
        autoOpen: true,
        width: 600,
        modal: true,
        buttons: {
            "Close": function () {
                $(this).dialog("close");
            }
        }, close: function() {
                $(this).dialog("destroy");

            }
    });
    }


</script>

I had the same trouble: worked in FF, but not in IE8.

Try adding something to the partial view response.

I was having this same trouble in IE and ended up adding @ViewBag.Message to the partial view response, where ViewBag.Message = "Submitted " + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString(); was assigned in the controller on Post.

This suddenly and surprisingly caused the partial view to render in the correct target element instead of loading the view as a new page in IE8.