>>Hmm, "contend" is not the correct word in this context. It should be some other similar sounding word, but I am not sure about it. This is unrelated question, but please answer it as well.
>
>I don't usually use the jQuery dialog, but I did a bit of poking around and it looks like you should be able to load the form this way:
>
>$("#sform").load(url).dialog({ modal: true, width:1000, height:600});
>
>Set url to the actual page/url you want to open, ex:
>
>var url = "/MyController/MyAction/" + id;

Paul,

I am seeing some weird behavior.

1. In IE or FireFox my Clients view display OK with the grid, but in Google Chrome grid does not appear! I believe it may be result of added onSuccess because that's the behavior I had before (I think). That's weird :(

2. In IE I now have some problems with validations:

If I type invalid e-mail, immediatelly after I start typing (even before I completed) I see the validation message. It does not go away if I remove email field content. I believe it was working OK before when I invoked the form through document.location

The Phone and Ext do not show validation messages at all although also I believe it was working OK.

Finally, submit and Cancel button seems to do nothing.

These tests were in IE, since in Chrome I was not able to even show the grid.

Do you see what may be wrong?

Here is my Clients.js file

$(document).ready(function () {
    if ($('#frmClientsSearch').length === 1) {
        
        $("input[name=searchClientName]").focus();
        $("input[name=searchClientName]").select();
    }

    var scope = $('#sform');
    $('input[type=submit]', scope).click(function (e) {
        try {
            e.preventDefault();

            if (!scope.valid()) {
                 alert('has invalid');
                return;
            }

            save(scope);
           
        } catch (e) {
            alert("Error " + e);
        }

    });
   
    $("input[name=searchClientName]").keyup(function (event) {
        
        if (event.keyCode === 13) {
            $("#btnClientsSearch").click();
        }
    });
});

// http://www.ienablemuch.com/2011/11/flexigrid-crudinline-form-with-aspnet.html
var formHtml = "";

function canRender() {
    return _canRender;
}

$(function () {
    _canRender = false;
});

$("#flexClients").flexigrid({
    url: '/Client/Client/',
    dataType: 'json',
    colModel: [
    { display: 'Client Id', name: 'Id', width: 100, sortable: true, align: 'center', hide: true },
    { display: 'Client #', name: 'Number', width: 100, sortable: true, align: 'center' },
    { display: 'Name', name: 'Name', width: 350, sortable: true, align: 'center' },
    { display: 'Contact 1', name: 'Contact1', width: 350, sortable: true, align: 'center' },
    ],
    buttons: [
    { name: 'Add', bclass: 'add', onpress: add },
    { name: 'Edit', bclass: 'edit', onpress: edit },
    { name: 'Delete', bclass: 'delete', onpress: del },
    { separator: true }
    ],
    searchitems: [
    { display: 'Client Name', name: 'Name' }
    ],
    sortname: "Name",
    sortorder: "asc",
    usepager: true,
    title: 'Clients',
    useRp: true,
    rp: 15,
    rpOptions: [5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 40],
    showTableToggleBtn: true,
    width: 900,
    onSuccess: bindDblClick,
    onSubmit: addFormData,
    hideOnSubmit: false,
    height: 'auto',
    singleSelect: true
});

//$('.flexigrid').on('dblclick', 'tr[id*="row"]', function () {
//    // console.log('mouseenter rowId: ' + $(this).attr('id').substr(3));
//    alert($(this).attr('id').substr(3));
//    //Edit();
//});

function bindDblClick()
{
    $('#flexClients tr').dblclick(function () {
        var id = $(this).attr('id');
        id != '' || (id = $('#flexClients tr').index(this));
       
       edit('Edit');
    });
}

//This function adds parameters to the post of flexigrid. You can add a verification as well by return to false if you don't want flexigrid to submit			
function addFormData() {

    //passing a form object to serializeArray will get the valid data from all the objects, but, if the you pass a non-form object, you have to specify the input elements that the data will come from
    var dt = $('#sform').serializeArray();
    dt = dt.concat($('#frmClientsSearch').serializeArray());

    $("#flexClients").flexOptions({ params: dt });
    return true;
};

$('#sform').submit(function () {

    $('#flexClients').flexOptions({ newp: 1 }).flexReload();
 
    return false;
});

function del(com, grid) {
    try {
        var clientName = $('.trSelected td:eq(2)').text();
        if (clientName) //Variable is defined and not empty
        {
            if (confirm("Are you sure you want to delete " + $.trim(clientName) + "?")===false)
                return false;            

            $('.trSelected', grid).each(function () {
                var id = $(this).attr('id');
                id = id.substring(id.lastIndexOf('row') + 3);

                addFormData(); $('#flexClients').flexOptions({ url: '/Client/Delete/'+ id }).flexReload();
            });

        }
    }
    catch(e) {
        alert('Error ' + e);
    }
}

function add(com, grid){
    $("#sform").dialog({
        autoOpen: false,
        show: "blind",
        width: 1000,
        height: 600
    });
    $("#sform").dialog("open");

    clearForm();
    $('#fntype').val('Add');
}
 
function edit(com, grid)
{
        $('.trSelected', grid).each(function () {
          
                var id = $(this).attr('id');
                id = id.substring(id.lastIndexOf('row') + 3);

                var url = '/Client/Edit/' + id;            
                $("#sform").load(url).dialog({ modal: true, width: 1000, height: 600 });

            //$("#sform").dialog({
            //    autoOpen: false,
            //    show: "blind",
            //    width: 1000,
            //    height: 600
            //});
            //$("#sform").dialog("open");
            //clearForm();
            //$('#fntype').val('Edit');
            //$('#Id').val($('.trSelected td:eq(0)').text());
            //$('#Number').val($('.trSelected td:eq(1)').text());
            //$('#Name').val($('.trSelected td:eq(2)').text());

            //$('#Contact1').val($('.trSelected td:eq(3)').text());

        });

    }

function clearForm() {

    $("#sform input").val("");

}

$(function () {
    $('#btnSave').click(function () {
        addFormData();
        $('#flexClients').flexOptions({ url: '/Client/Client/' }).flexReload();
        clearForm();
        $('#sform').dialog('close');
        return false;
    });
});

$(function () {
    $('#btnCancel').click(function () {

        //clearForm();
        $('#sform').dialog('close');
        return;
    });
});

$(function () {
    $('#btnClientsSearch').click(function () {
        addFormData();
        $('#flexClients').flexOptions({ url: '/Client/Client/' }).flexReload();
      
    });
});

This is the Client.cshtml

@model CardNumbers.Objects.Client

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Clients";
}

@section scripts {
    <script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/Clients.js")" type="text/javascript" ></script>
}

<form id="frmClientsSearch">
    <label for="clientNo">Client No: </label>
    <input type="number" name="searchClientNo" class="numericOnly" /><br />
    <label for="clientName">Client Name: </label>
    <input type="text" size="25" value="Please enter the search value" class="SelectOnEntry"
        name="searchClientName" />

    <input type="button" id="btnClientsSearch" value="Find / Refresh" />
</form>
<div style="padding-left: 150px; padding-top: 50px; padding-bottom: 50px;" id="ClientsResults">
    <table id="flexClients" style="display: none">
    </table>
</div>

<div id="editor" style="visibility: hidden">
    @using (Html.BeginForm(null, null, FormMethod.Post, new { id = "sform", title = "Client Info" }))
    {

        Html.Partial("_ClientForm", Model);
    }

</div>

This is ClientController.cs

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using CardNumbers.Models;
using CardNumbers.Data;

namespace CardNumbers.Controllers
{
    public class ClientController : Controller
    {
        private IClientRepository Db;

        public ClientController()
        {
            this.Db = new ClientRepository(new CardNumbersContext());
        }
        public ClientController(IClientRepository Db)
        {
            this.Db = Db;
        }

        #region Search
        public ActionResult Search(int? searchClientNo = null, string searchClientName = null)
        {
            // Assume we want to select everything
            var clients = Db.Clients; // Should set type of clients to IQueryable<Clients>

            if ((searchClientNo ?? 0) != 0) //Number was supplied
                clients = clients.Where(c => (c.Number == searchClientNo));

            // If clientNo was supplied, clients is now filtered by that. If not, it still has the full list. The following will further filter it.
            if (!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchClientName)) // Part of the name was supplied
                clients = clients.Where(c => (c.Name.Contains(searchClientName)));

            return PartialView("_ClientsSearch", clients);
            //   return PartialView("_Client", clients);
        }
        #endregion

        #region Client
        [HttpGet]
        public ActionResult Client(int id = 0)
        {
            return View();
        }


        /// <summary>
        /// This method is invoked from the flexigrid
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="formValues"></param>
        /// <param name="searchClientNo"></param>
        /// <param name="searchClientName"></param>
        /// <returns></returns>
        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Client(FormCollection formValues)
        {
            // Assume we want to select everything
            var clients = Db.Clients; // Should set type of clients to IQueryable<Clients>
            int searchClientNo = 0;
            
            int.TryParse(formValues["searchClientNo"], out searchClientNo );
            string searchClientName = formValues["searchClientName"].ToString();

            if (searchClientNo == 0 && searchClientName == "Please enter the search value")
                clients = clients.Where(c => (c.Number == searchClientNo));
            else
            {
                if (searchClientNo != 0) //Number was supplied
                    clients = clients.Where(c => (c.Number == searchClientNo));

                // If clientNo was supplied, clients is now filtered by that. If not, it still has the full list. The following will further filter it.
                if (!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(searchClientName)) // Part of the name was supplied
                    clients = clients.Where(c => (c.Name.Contains(searchClientName)));

            }
            int page = int.Parse(formValues["page"] ?? "1");

            int rp = int.Parse(formValues["rp"]);
            string qtype = formValues["qtype"].ToString();

            string query = (formValues["query"] ?? "").ToString();

            string sortname = (formValues["sortname"] ?? "Name").ToString();
            string sortorder = (formValues["sortorder"] ?? "asc").ToString();
           

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(sortname) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(sortorder))
            {
                clients = clients.OrderBy(sortname, (sortorder == "asc"));
            }

            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(qtype) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(query))
            {
                clients = clients.Like(qtype, query);
            }

            int Total = clients.Count();

            clients = clients.Skip((page - 1) * rp).Take(rp);

            var flexgrid = new
            {
                page = page,
                total = Total,
                rows = clients
                .Select(x => new
                {
                    id = x.Id,

                    cell = new { Id = x.Id, Number = x.Number, Name = x.Name, Contact1 = x.Contact1.Contact ?? String.Empty }
                }
                )
            };

            return Json(flexgrid, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);

        }

        #endregion Client


        public ActionResult QuickSearch(string term)
        {
            var clients = from c in Db.Clients
                          where c.Name.Contains(term)
                          orderby c.Name
                          select new { label = c.Name };

            return Json(clients, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
        }

        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }

        //
        // GET: /Client/Details/5

        public ActionResult Details(int id)
        {
            return View();
        }

        //
        // GET: /Client/Create

        public ActionResult Create()
        {
            return View();
        }

        //
        // POST: /Client/Create

        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Create(FormCollection collection)
        {
            try
            {
                // TODO: Add insert logic here

                return RedirectToAction("Index");
            }
            catch
            {
                return View();
            }
        }
                
        // GET: /Client/Edit/5

        public ActionResult Edit(int id)
        {
            var client = Db.GetClientById(id);
 
            return PartialView("_ClientForm",client);
        }

        //
        // POST: /Client/Edit/5

        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Edit(int id, FormCollection collection)
        {
            try
            {
                // TODO: Add update logic here

                return RedirectToAction("Index");
            }
            catch
            {
                return View();
            }
        }

        //
        // GET: /Client/Delete/5

        public ActionResult Delete(int id)
        {
            return View();
        }

        //
        // POST: /Client/Delete/5

        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult Delete(int id, FormCollection collection)
        {
            try
            {                                

                Db.DeleteClient(id);
                return this.Client(collection);
                
            }
            catch
            {
                return View();
            }
        }
    }
}