jQuery modal box round up

jQuery has many great plugin, and some of them are modal box. So, I collected amazing list of modal box for jQuery, and here they are.

ColorBox

ColorBox is a light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3. And it was design to follow web best standard and W3C standards.

Features

• Supports photos, photo groups, ajax, inline, and iframed content.
• Appearance is completely controlled through CSS so users can restyle the box.
• Behaviour settings can be over-written without altering the ColorBox javascript file.
• Completely unobtrusive, requires no changes to existing HTML
• Degrades gracefully, all content displayed can be accessed without JavaScript.
• Preloads background images to avoid flash of unstyled content on first use.
• Can preload upcoming images in a photo group.
• Lightweight: only 12kbs of JavaScript – only 2kbs gzipped & minified!
• Written in jQuery plugin format and can be chained with other jQuery commands.
• Generates W3C valid XHTML and CSS
• Released under the MIT License.

Homepage

http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/

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ThickBox

ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery. It was one of the oldest modal box plugin for jQuery.

Homepage

http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/

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JQuery UI Dialog

Modal box from JQuery UI, support for dragging, displaying form.

Homepage

http://jqueryui.com

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SimpleModal

SimpleModal is a lightweight jQuery plugin that provides a simple interface to create a modal dialog.

Homepage

http://www.ericmmartin.com/projects/simplemodal/

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Facebox

Facebox is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages.

Homepage

http://famspam.com/facebox

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Boxy

Boxy is a Facebook-style dialog box for jQuery, but has more features than Facebox, support for dragging and size tweening.

Homepage

http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/boxy/

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jqModal

jqModal is trying to be minimalist modal box for jQuery, has support for styling and nested modal.

Features

• Designer Friendly – Use *your* HTML+CSS for Layout and Styling
• Translator/i18n friendly – No hardcoded English strings
• Developer friendly – Extensible through callbacks to make anything (gallery slideshows, video-conferencing, etc.) possible
• Simple support for remotely loaded content (aka “AJAX”)
• Multiple Modal Support (including Modal-in-Modal)

Homepage

http://dev.iceburg.net/jquery/jqModal/

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