Modal layers

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Sam Takoy

Hi,

It seems like every site has it now. You click on something, a layer
comes up that is "modal" and everything else is grayed out until you
click it away or it times out?

I have found a number of write-up on how to do it, but all seem ad hoc
and fly by night. Is there a robust, sustainable, modern approach to
doing this?

I would appreciate any links.

Many thanks in advance,

Sam
 
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Helpful person

Hi,

It seems like every site has it now. You click on something, a layer
comes up that is "modal" and everything else is grayed out until you
click it away or it times out?

I have found a number of write-up on how to do it, but all seem ad hoc
and fly by night. Is there a robust, sustainable, modern approach to
doing this?

I would appreciate any links.

Many thanks in advance,

Sam

Interesting question, I'm looking forward to reading the answers.
However, I hope you're not going to use this method. I find it almost
as annoying as blinking text and pictures.

www.richardfisher.com
 
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idle

Hi,

It seems like every site has it now. You click on something, a layer
comes up that is "modal" and everything else is grayed out until you
click it away or it times out?

I have found a number of write-up on how to do it, but all seem ad hoc
and fly by night. Is there a robust, sustainable, modern approach to
doing this?

I would appreciate any links.

Many thanks in advance,

Sam

The modern approach on the modal dialog http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536759(VS.85).aspx
is the lightbox you see everywhere.

Basic
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/
Fancy
http://fancybox.net/
* Bump
http://www.artviper.net/website-tools/bumpbox-lightbox.php


* fave
 
S

Sam Takoy

Thanks!

I kinda like the bump box, but there seems to be no documentation
whatsoever, so I'm not able to change any of the settings, like delays,
background colors, etc. Can you point to the documentation, please?

Thanks again!
 
R

rf

Sam Takoy said:
So how do I change the background color?

I dunno. You'll have to look. Firebug will help you determine where the
background colour is specified.
 
D

Dave

Sam said:
I kinda like the bump box, but there seems to be no documentation
whatsoever, so I'm not able to change any of the settings, like delays,
background colors, etc. Can you point to the documentation, please?

Another alternative not already mentioned is http://highslide.com/ which
contains plenty of documentation, plenty of options/overrides, and
thoroughly top-notch support from the author on his forums.
 
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idle

Does that mean they can only be changed by altering the .js file? Or can
they be changed from the html file?

only the js.
Open it with a text editor and change as needed.
 
D

Dave

asdf said:
This is unpaid, but I've been using Highslide JS lately, and it can be
adapted to do things other than image zooms, it's really easy, and it seems
to work nicely on just about everything I've tried it out on lately. I
*think* you can choose to do the 'modal' thing or not... take a look.

Indeed you can.
 

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