Advice on which modal popup to use: ASP.NET AjaxControlToolkit vs jQuery plugin vs Greybox vs ?

Question

This is all being done in an ASP.NET web forms application:

I need a modal popup that will show the user a preview of images that match a search criteria (e.g. they search for "dog" and the popup shows them all dog-related pictures). The search results shouldn't be too long, but the popup should support the ability to scroll if necessary. I also need to capture which image they selected and send that info back to the calling page.

I've taken a look at some of the options out there and am having a hard time deciding on which one to use. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

i prefer the use of jquery because it doesnt require the use of any server-side computations. also if the app ever ported to another technology other than asp.net it will still most likely work.

Answer 2

I've been quite happy with the jQuery plug-in Simple Modal.

Answer 3

I'm happy with jqModal, the plugin it's really minimalistic (basically 2.97kb of JS, and 496bytes of css) and works great...

Answer 4

I'd say go with ours; Ajax Calendar Starter-Kit (click the button to the lower left corner) but then again I am definitely biased...

Answer 5

don't use any modal plugins, create your own.

<div id="modal"></div>

modal { position: absolute; top: 200px; left: 200px; z-index: 12; width: 200px; height: 100px; background: red; color: blue; }

Then you can have some javascript on it, I recommend jquery's draggable, and then put some element that you can click on it so it disappears.

Voilà!!!

Answer 6

Does anyone consider dynamicdrive DHTML Modal window v1.1(www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex8/dhtmlwindow/dhtmlmodal.htm)? Does JQModal better?