Any good lightbox for a modal dialog?

Question

There are thousands of lightbox components and the likes.
I've looked at about 10 of them, but couldn't find what I need.

Just wondering if anyone know a lightbox like component that:

• can popup an inline div (that is initially hidden)
• can be modal (eg. you must select a radio button or you can't close the box)
• can be called dynamically, eg. so that I can call Popup('myDiv'); on page load without the user clicking anything
• has sufficient documentation/examples to allow me do the above easily

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I think Facebox will give you everything except preventing the user from "closing" it.

Otherwise there's always jQuery UI's Dialog widget, which does have that feature.

Answer 2

I recommend Fancybox (http://fancybox.net/)

Answer 3

BlockUI is a very nice jQuery plugin for making modal popups.

Popup an inline hidden div (I do this all the time with it):

$.blockUI({ message: $('#divID') });

Can be modal: it won't close the popup until you call $.unblockUI()

Dynamic: Just call $.blockUI() where ever you wish, including page load

Documentation: LOTS of examples on their site

Answer 4

I recommend jqModal, which meets all of those requirements.

Answer 5

Take a look at the jQuery Tools, specifically Overlay.