Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Top 5 jQuery Modal Plugins

I’ve been working on a couple of prototype projects over the last month or so and inevitably I end up needing some type of modal dialog to either notify or request information to/from the user.

Historically, I’ve just been  BlockUI man, but I wondered what everyone else in the jQuery community was using for a modal dialog plugin.

So, about a week ago I tweeted a poll from PollDaddy asking what modal plugins you use.

Here are the results of the poll…

As you can see, out of the 15 jQuery Modal plugins that I polled, the community picked the following 5 to be their favorite jQuery Modal Dialog plugin…

  1. ThickBox
  2. BlockUI
  3. jQuery UI Dialog
  4. jqModal
  5. Facebox

6 comments:

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  2. Thank you for the result. I never heard about BlockUI. Good thing.

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  3. I had never heard of PollDaddy! Keep tweeting Elijah, this is killer stuff for us web guys.

    You make me less dumber.

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  4. I've been thinking about similar topics lately, and it's good to see that I'm not alone. What do you think about jQuery UI Dialog?

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  5. this one's going on Delicious

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    The current functionalities are:

    Rounded corners light box
    Navigation with buttons
    Real slide show with progress bar

    Live demo:
    http://www.notesfor.net/post/NotesForLightBox.aspx

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