My Javascript Pop Up Hell
Okay, that’s quite a bit of an exaggeration, maybe purgatory rather than hell.
Anyway, I don’t really know any javascript so I rely on help from the bountiful internet so I can do things with it. Lucky for me there are a bazillion javascripty jquery type pop ups, however unfortunately there are A BAZILLION javascripty jquery type pop ups. Well again, I’m overreacting slightly. But here are a few of the pop up plugin type things I tried out.
Lightbox
Lightbox is the one everyone has heard of, but it annoys me slightly – although I’m not entirely sure why. Simple to use and install, but unfortunately wasn’t any use for me this time as it can only show images, rather the sections of HTML that I required.
Colourbox
Colorbox is nice. It produces nice looking pop ups. Smooth transitions. It can load up flash, video as well as HTML. However, again I couldn’t use it for the project I wanted as I needed a div to pop up then stay where it was allowing you to interact with the rest of the page. I think you might be able to get Colorbox to do this, but I struggled with the coding.
DOMWindow
DOMWindow was my saviour in the project I was working on. I didn’t want a hover pop up, or one that fills the entire screen, but with one click a little window should appear, then it should close when the user clicks on the close button. Very simple and easy to use.
A few others
Tags: build, interface, javascript, thoughts