closing a jquery dialog window

Question

User1575314614 posted

So I have a link on a page that opens a modal dialog that contains another asp.net page.  That page will accept some user input and then process a postback.  I then want to close the modal window without the user needing to click on anything.  My first thought was to just redirect the content of that window to a generic web page that just contains a script that closes the window.  That way I can use this page for multiple uses, but I can't seem to figure out a script that will close it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here's how I open the dialog

<script type="text/javascript">
 $(function () {
   $('a.mDialog').click(function (e) {
     e.preventDefault();
     var $this = $(this);
     var horizontalPadding = 30;
     var verticalPadding = 30;
     $('<iframe id="externalPage" class="externalPage" src="' + this.href + '" />').dialog({
       title: ($this.attr('title')) ? $this.attr('title') : 'Dialog Title',
       autoOpen: true,
       width: 800,
       height: 500,
       modal: true,
       resizable: false,
       autoResize: true,
       overlay: {
         opacity: 0.5,
         background: "black"
       }
     }).width(800 - horizontalPadding).height(500 - verticalPadding);
   });
 });
</script>

<a href="addPerson.aspx" class="mDialog" title="Add Person">add person</a>

Answer 1

User1575314614 posted

nevermind.  figured it out.  just used parent.location.reload();

Answer 2

User-768391503 posted

Reloading the page to get rid of it seems pretty extreme.

You could just do

$("selector").dialog("close");

Eric