title: jquery modal windows - closing frustrations with greybox and jqmodal
body: <p>I've been trying to get modal windows working on a new site for some time now. I first tried jqmodal and had no issues displaying the modals, but the close buttons never worked - or at least they worked on some pages but not on others. I put a great deal of effort into debugging and couldn't find the issue.</p>
  
  <p>I recently tried out greybox to see if I had better luck, but ran into a very similar issue. The close button at the top-right works fine, but I can't make a button within the modal that acts as a close. I've tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>onclick="parent.parent.GB_hide();"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and similar variants but they just load whatever href is set to within the modal. However, if I do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>onclick="top.window.location.href='www.google.com'; parent.parent.GB_hide();"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this will close the modal and open Google, as intended. What I can't figure out is why I can't make a button that will just plain close it.</p>
  
  <p>I feel like I'm missing something pretty fundamental since I keep running into similar issues. Incidentally the site is written in ASP.NET MVC with jquery and I'm primarily testing on Firefox right now.</p>
  
  <p>I also realize this question is a bit vague, so I appreciate any thoughts and can supply more info if requested. Thanks in advance!</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong> I still have no idea how to proceed. Nick's ideas were well taken but I see no Javascript errors on the page with either Firebug or Venkman. As far as I can tell the window should be closing.</p>
  
  <p>Why would the second 'onclick' event above work, but not the second?</p>