Can anyone tell me about a jQuery modal dialog box library that doesn't suck
- by Ritesh M Nayak
jQuery based modal dialog boxes are great as long as you do as much as the example tells you to. I need a jQuery based modal dialog box library that has to have the following characteristics:
It should be fast, something like the add and link dialog on StackOverflow. Most libraries take an eternity to load the dialog with its fancy effects and stuff.
I want to call it using a script. Show a hidden div or a span element inline. MOst of the libraries talk filling an anchor with rel, class and href=#hiddenDiv sort of things. I need to be able to what I want without adding unnecessary attributes to my anchor. Something like this
function showDialog(values)
{
processToChangeDom(values);
changeDivTobeDisplayed();
modalDialog.show();
}
It should reflect changes I make to the DOM in the hidden Div. I used facebox and found out that it makes a copy of the hidden div and changes to the DOM doesn't reflect on the modal window.
I need to be able call the close modal div using javascript and also attach beforeOpen and afterClose handlers to the action.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I have already tried facebox, simplemodal and a whole range of libraries, most of them don't support one or the other of these functions I described above.
