Creating custom dialogs
Custom dialogs can be used for all kinds of user input. We can ask the user to fill a form (for example, a login form can be displayed as a dialog). We can also use them to ask the user to accept or decline some action that requires immediate attention (for example, a dialog asking the user "Are you sure you want to delete the selected items?").
As we can theoretically display any other page segment in a dialog, it would be great if we had a single flexible method to do it. The easiest way to attain flexibility is to split the dialog into three parts: view, model, and controller.
In this recipe, we're going to create a general dialog. It will consist of a view (HTML that supports JavaScript templating), a model (available ...
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