jQuery tools modal overlay display problem in IE6-8

Posted by Michael Stone on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Michael Stone
Published on 2010-06-02T15:51:04Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 15:54 UTC
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I'm trying to enable the overlay to be modal. It works perfectly fine in FireFox, but the window object is behind the mask when it becomes modal. This prevents any interaction with it and the page is actually useless. I've tried debugging this for a while and can't figure it out.

Here is a link to the example on their site: http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/overlay/modal-dialog.html

$.fn.cfwindow = function(btnEvent,modal,draggable){
    //error checking
    if(btnEvent == ""){
        alert('Error in window :\n Please provide an id that instantiates the window. ');
    }   

    if(!modal && !draggable){
        $('#'+btnEvent+'[rel]').overlay();
        $('#content_overlay').css('cursor','default');
    }

    if(!modal && draggable){
        $('#'+btnEvent+'[rel]').overlay();
        $('#content_overlay').css('cursor','move');
        $('#custom').draggable();
    }

    if(modal){
        $('#'+btnEvent+'[rel]').overlay({
            // some mask tweaks suitable for modal dialogs
            mask: {
                color: '#646464',
                loadSpeed: 200,
                opacity: 0.6
            },
            closeOnClick: false
        }); 
        $('#content_overlay').css('cursor','default');
        //$('#custom').addClass('modal');
    }

};

That's what I'm referencing when I call through:

<script type="text/javascript">         
    $(document).ready(function(){
        $(document).pngFix();
        var modal = <cfoutput>#attributes.modal#;
        var drag = #attributes.draggable#;
        var btn = '#attributes.selector#';
        var src = '#attributes.source#';

        var wid = '#attributes.width#';

        $('##custom').width(parseInt(wid));

        $('div##load_content').load(src);
        $('##custom').cfwindow(btn,modal,drag,wid);
    });
</script>

CSS for the modal:

<style type="text/css">
    .modal {
        display:none;
        text-align:left;                
        background-color:#FFFFFF;
        -moz-border-radius:6px;
        -webkit-border-radius:6px;

    }
</style>

Exclude the and the additional pound signs, IE. "##".

Screen shot of the problem: http://twitpic.com/1tak06

Note: IE6 and IE8 have the same problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

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