Modal Box

rubyonrails-talk
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I am looking for the best way to create modal boxes in my RubyOnRails app.

What I am looking for:

  • a box that does not close when you click outside of the box
  • a box that does not darken out everything outside of the box
  • a box that I can put a form in
  • works on IE6+, Firefox, Safari

And if it nicely integrated with Rails even better.

What are people using? :slight_smile:

2

http://prototype-window.xilinus.com/

You’ll have to write your own rails helper, which shouldn’t be too hard.

Best regards

Peter De Berdt

3

We use Control.Modal, which is based on Prototype and can easily be configure for 1 & 2 and works fine with forms (e.g. login form on http://autopendium.com).

Re, integration with Rails, I'm not the best person to comment (though the Prototype integration gives it a smaller footprint than if it was stand-alone), as we use it unobtrusively with behaviours attached via LowPro.

http://livepipe.net/projects/control_modal/ http://www.danwebb.net/2006/9/3/low-pro-unobtrusive-scripting-for-prototype

HTH Chris

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