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What is this thing in thinking of in HTML or Javascript?
okay so its like a popup window, but it isnt a seperate window in WINDOWS 7. Its like a virtual window in a firefox window. So when you click a link or something, it open up, so that you can view it. Then when you click the little x, it closes it and you can continue where you were before you clicked the link... very confusing. Any idea what it's coding is?
2 Answers
- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
in short, it is just a popup, it has many names depend on the creator who named it.
There are 2 type of popup:
1. default popup (browser popup - alert box, confirm box ..etc )
2. popup that created by javascript (most of them using jQuery library), these type of popup can run only within the browser body.
There are many many popups that u find them here:
- thinkbox: http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/
- boxy: http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/boxy/
- jquery dialog: http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/
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and so on
hmmm.. if u confuse about this box u can notice that, window popup and browser popup can move outside the browser body or frame, but the second type (lightbox, thick box ..) cannot, and can only inside the browser frame.
hope this help
- LocoluisLv 710 years ago
They call it a lightbox. It's made from HTML layered divs, an iframe containing the window content, and of course Javascript that gets triggered when you click.
