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How to display forms in modal dialog with Drupal 8?
If you click the link, the form will be displayed in a modal dialog! Drupal will automatically detect that you are sending an AJAX request and will display just the form so you won’t need to worry about removing the rest of the blocks or hiding undesired markup. The last thing missing, is what will happen if the user creates a node?
How to submit a form in JQuery with confirmation?
Instead of putting a submit button, make the button a normal button and handle its click event. Then you just submit the form if the user clicks Yes. You also have some syntax errors like this unneeded form action
How are form alter hooks called in Drupal?
The module order is determined by system weight, then by module name. Within each module, form alter hooks are called in the following order: first, hook_form_alter (); second, hook_form_BASE_FORM_ID_alter (); third, hook_form_FORM_ID_alter (). So, for each module, the more general hooks are called first followed by the more specific.
How to create custom forms in Drupal 8?
Drupal 8 has a great AJAX Form API which includes some tools to create modal dialogs using the jQuery modal library. The Examples module even demonstrates how to create a custom form and display it in a modal window. But what if what you want to do is display an already created form in a modal?
How to display a node add form in Drupal?
Let’s display the node add form in a modal window. The first thing that we need to do is create a link which will trigger the modal when the user clicks it. The only special things that this link needs to have are a few attributes that will let Drupal know to display the contents of the link in a dialog:
Is there a dialog API in Drupal 8?
Drupal 8 now has a Dialog API in core, which greatly reduces the amount of code you need to write to create a modal dialog. Dialogs in Drupal 8 leverage jQuery UI. In this first part in the series on the modal API in Drupal 8, we are going to create a search link in a block in the sidebar.
Why does Drupal use bootstrap modal instead of jQuery?
The reason is, admin pages already have dependencies on most Drupal jQuery libraries, while non admin pages are loaded without any jQuery out of the box (which is a great performance improvement in D8). If enabled in the theme settings of the Bootstrap theme, “jQuery Modal” is replaced by “Bootstrap Modal”, see this code snippet: