Before I throw away the idea of a popup window

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Good day everyone,

I have been looking for days for a simple popup solution.

Here is the problem:

I have a page, I need a way to alert user not to, eg: Do something if they have done it in the past.

So the user visit the website, they click on a apply button, a popup window opens alerting the user: If you have done this you don’t need to do that. There will be two buttons, one will say continue, the other will say cancel.

There is a solution in the JQuery book, from Novice to Ninja, but it does not work in IE.

Why can’t I just add a text to the page? Well people don’t read things! :slight_smile:

Every pop up I have seen are so freaking bloated. However, I need something like JQuery inline solution.

My self imposed deadline is today and I’ll ditch the project.

Any ideas will be highly appreciated!

IC

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here’s a good modal technique for jQuery.

Inline Modal Window w/ CSS and jQuery by Soh Tanaka

The added code isn’t too bad if you load it at the bottom of the page.

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I saw that and thought it was great but it does not work with IE6. :frowning:

Thanks for the input.

IC

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is your client requiring you to have this functional for IE6? If not, I wouldn’t worry about it. IE6 users are few and far between these days and honestly I really don’t even code for it anymore.

If they are. I would educate them on IE6 usage (tell them it’s not used much anymore and even YouTube and some other major sites have cut off support for it.) and tell them it will require extra work and payment to implement in this particular browser.

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Actually I just tried the demo in IE6 and it works effectively enough. Not perfect but good enough.

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I completely agree with you but this is for a college website.
And we have massive amount of users, so compatibility is not an option. Personally, I say people still using IE6 should be fine! :slight_smile:

IC

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not sure what you meant here. :slight_smile: Did it work for you in IE6?

I work with higher ed as well and we still have to support IE6 because of some of our legacy users. (sigh). But outside development… no way I waste my time.

What school do you work at?

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Because of privacy and how Google index and crawl these posts, I rather not say. However, I meant we need to support IE6 because of the number of people accessing this page.

If it was a personal project, I would not care about IE6. It’s about time people get an upgrade. This is what has hurt the web, instead of people telling people to upgrade, they are feeding them with hacks.

It’s like the digital conversion of TV. Get a box, or watch nothing, yes it worked.
Don’t get a box, well you can watch movies in the grainy format! :smiley:

ic