DHTML Modal Window Widget - Pause Execution?

But from looking at your answer it looks to me that you are providing a mthod for the veil to whiteout the parent page but I do not see how the code on the parent page will not continue to run.

Perhaps I am missing something but will the line of code after the one that opens the dialogue wait to execute until after the dialogue is dismissed?

You are absolutely right that everything will run. But it will just be covered up. If you have any alerts on the page, what you could do is set that alert to open when you click the "x" button?

Yes but ...

In my case PAGE B (a child or PAGE A) needs to invoke the dialogue but needs to do so thru PAGE A so that PAGE A is also covered/disabled. It is a function on PAGE B that needs to be executed when the dialgue closes but I am not sure how to do that.

Can I some way inside of PAGE A tell the dialgue to call a function that is on PAGE B?

You could do this, but it would require ajax to call one thing from another page.

Is that something that you provide me some direction on?

Thanks in advance.