jQuery Facebox delay

Question

I need a very FAST and lightweight jquery based Modal box on my site, I am looking at Facebox http://famspam.com/facebox

It is a nice plugin and it seems fast and lightweight but I think I can still strip out some of the features I do not need. For example I do not need it to use regex and find photos, so I have removed that part of the code, also I do not want the box to close whenever you click anywhere or the escape key. I have this partially done, I removed the code that makes the escape key close the box but I have not figured out how to make it only close programaticly or when clicking the close button only, right now it closes on any click outside of the box.

Now I have one issue I have not been able to figure out yet, there appears to be 2 spots in the code that control the delay of fading the box in and out, they were set at 200 and I changed them to 0 and tried several other number combinations but I can not seem to get the speed to be faster (less delay).

Does anyone know how to remove the delay in opening a facebox? Also how to disable it from closing when you click anywhere outside of the box?

Answer 1

Instead of hacking facebox, I would try something more configurable.

I've used jqModal (http://dev.iceburg.net/jquery/jqModal/ ) to create modal boxes, which display instantly, can't be closed except when certain conditions are met, etc

Answer 2

I use the thickbox for one project, pretty fast. Check also this list. I recommend you to keep the closing by clicking outside the box option, a real help for users.