Hi everybody,

I have the following Edit view:

@model CardNumbers.Objects.Client

@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Edit Client";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_PopupLayout.cshtml";
}

        @Html.Partial("_ClientForm", Model)   

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

as you can see, it is supposed to use a different layout.

However, when I was tracing the execution in debugger I saw that the default _Layout view was hit before opening this view on this line

// GET: /Client/Edit/5

        public ActionResult Edit(int id)
        {
            var client = Db.GetClientById(id);
 
            return View(client);
        }

and also, more importantly, I am still struggling on trying to make the modal form work for the Edit button. With some help in stackoverflow I got the form show and be able to close and resize using this code:

var $dlg = $("#sform").dialog({
    autoOpen: false,
    show: "blind",
    closeOnEscape: true,
    resizable: true,
    width: 1200,
    height: 750,
    minHeight: 600,
    minWidth: 950
});

function RunModalDialog(title, url)
{
    
    if (title)
        $dlg.dialog("option", {"title": title });

    if (url)
       
        $dlg.load(url, function () {
            $dlg.dialog("option", {"title": title }).dialog("open");
        });
    else
      $dlg.dialog("open");
}

function add(com, grid){
    RunModalDialog("Create New Client");

    clearForm();
    $('#fntype').val('Add');
}
 
function edit(com, grid)
{
        $('.trSelected', grid).each(function () {
          
                var id = $(this).attr('id');
                id = id.substring(id.lastIndexOf('row') + 3);
                currentId = id;
                $('#fntype').val('Edit');
                var ClientName;
                ClientName =$('.trSelected td:eq(2)').text();
               var url = '/Client/Edit/' + id;            
            
               RunModalDialog("Edit Client: " + ClientName, url);
        });

    }

However, now, right after the Edit view finished loading, the Client method of the controller gets hit again (the Client is the main view which invokes that modal dialog). I am not sure why this is happening and how can I prevent it. It is not happening for the Add button.