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This is a issue that recently started to happen. I have SPFx extension which uses custom dialog. When user clicks on button, I have dialog box that opens up with table and a close button which user can use to close the dialogue box.

But I am suddenly seeing an issue where if I click on the button to open the dialogue box again, I will see the same table twice and the okay button twice as well. Everything was working fine up-to now so I am not sure why I am suddenly seeing this behavior. If I refresh the SharePoint page and click on the button, it will open just 1 table and 1 okay button so it seems like when I close the dialog box it is still holding on to the information rendered before and displays it again.

What would be the best way to deal with this?

I have tried searching for way to clear the dialog box before I render the table but I can't find anything on it. Any idea would be greatly appreciated. I am following this tutorial https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/spfx-creating-custom-dialog-boxes-without-a-javascript-framework. I have changed the onExecute to the following:

public onExecute(event: IListViewCommandSetExecuteEventParameters): void {
      
      switch (event.itemId) {  
        case 'COMMAND_1':  
                const dialog: CustomDialog = new CustomDialog();  
                dialog.itemUrlFromExtension = event.selectedRows[0].getValueByName("FileRef");  
                dialog.otherParam = "This is parameter passed from Extension"  
                dialog.show()

                
          break;  
        case 'COMMAND_2':  
          Dialog.alert(`${this.properties.sampleTextTwo}`);  
          break;  
        default:  
          throw new Error('Unknown command');  
      }  
    }  
  }

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  • could you share your code here? It's hard to guess why this is occurring without seeing how you implemented it. Oct 20, 2021 at 18:39
  • Are you passing dynamic content to the dialog box? If yes, clear the dynamic information state property on close of dialog & again set new value to the state property on click of button (to open dialog again). Oct 21, 2021 at 6:24
  • @DenisMolodtsov I have added the tutorial I am following as well as the code changed I made to get the error
    – hellothere
    Oct 25, 2021 at 12:09
  • @GaneshSanap I have added more details to the post
    – hellothere
    Oct 25, 2021 at 12:13
  • Did you miss var html:string = ""; line at the start of render() function? Oct 25, 2021 at 13:37

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Dialog box is showing old content/table again because you are "concatenating" the new content to previous content using:

this.domElement.innerHTML += html;

Instead of +=, use = like given in below code:

this.domElement.innerHTML = html;

This is an easier way than setting the innerHTML twice in render method.

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    I prefer this solution more. Thanks, Ganesh.
    – hellothere
    Oct 27, 2021 at 19:01
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To anyone facing similar issue- adding this.domElement.innerHTML = ""; in render() function fixed the issue.

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