When developing a site or application page in SharePoint the ribbon control will typically be excluded from the modal display since it is outside of the modal dialogs rendered output (see SharePoint CSS class s4-notdlg).

In most cases this is just fine, except that, if you want to display SharePoint notification toast’s you won’t see them, since the notification area DIV lives inside of the ribbon control, as the image below shows;

However, with a little jQuery, you can display notification’s inside your modal dialog.

First, somewhere in your site or application page markup create a DIV which will become the notification area’s new container;

The only important thing about this DIV is that it should have absolute positioning.

Next add the following piece of jQuery to move the existing notificationArea DIV to it’s new home;

&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;<br />	$(function() {<br />			$("#notificationArea")<br />				.appendTo("#newNotificationArea")<br />				.css("right", "20px");<br />	});<br />&lt;/script&gt;

Here we move the existing notificationArea DIV to be a child element of our new container DIV (newNotificationArea). I also adjust the notificationArea‘s right CSS property, to position it correctly within my application page.