SharePoint By Gaurav Goyal

If you want to open a window in a dialog from clicking a link then simply use the following JavaScript as the href property. javascript: var options = {url: '/Lists/MyList/NewForm.aspx?IsDlg=1&ContentTypeId=0x001989BCF16D8914CAF8862B0C6C89E091E' , title: 'Showing List' }; void(SP.UI.ModalDialog.showModalDialog(options)) As you can see this is simply taking the script you would usually call and adapting it to work in the href of a hyperlink anchor. It needs to be all on one line and return void when called. So why might you want to do this? Many reasons. Perhaps you have a list with multiple content types and you wish to open the new item form in a dialog AND change the title from the default “[List Title] – New Item” depending on which content type the item is being created from. The snippet above illustrates this. Or perhaps you wish to open a document library in a dialog. Or even an external site. Also you can use following script in your code : p