What's your favorite jQuery modal plugin?

Question

I'm looking for a jQuery plugin to show a modal-style popup consisting of a few paragraphs of text and a picture, which the user will view and close.

So far, my search has turned up jqModal, BlockUI, and SimpleModal. Do any of these stand out? Would you suggest something else?

(This is for use in a PHP site - no framework involved.)

Answer 1

The JQuery UI one is nice, and it is part of the JQuery UI framework which is also nice for other functionality within your app.

Answer 2

I am currently really digging the BlockUI Plugin. It has a Modal section, block elements, and even a Growl type message. It's really nice, and very smooth. http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block/

Answer 3

I had been using SimpleModal which works great and is very small, until I realized I needed nested modals. Since then I've moved to jqModal, which is even smaller and supports nested modal windows

Answer 4

So far SimpleModal works great for us - the nice thing is the flexibility.

Answer 5

I built this a while back for a specific feature on a project. I needed something smaller and more compact. It's worked very well for me. It does basic forms posts, html/ajax display, and user alerts.

http://code.google.com/p/light-modal/

Answer 6

Well, I must say, the one I built myself, because the ones available are just way too big (I don't like JQuery plugins which come with images and css files).

Take a look at it here.

Answer 7

Superbox

Answer 8

Cycle Plugin