Brice, very nice work. On 8/18/07, Brice Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ladies and Gentleman, > > A few hundred bytes were added to the jqModal plugin to aid those > struggling with z-Index container stacking issues. Namely; there's now > a shortcut** to overcome "the overlay covers everything, including the > dialog!" issues. Other improvements include a fault-tolerant focus > method as well as avoidance of IE z-Index stacking order issues. > > It has been awhile since this plugin made an announcement in the - > disuss limelight -- so for those that haven't heard; r10 was released > and addressed some long-standing issues [detailed @ plugin page] as > well as current [1.1.3.1] jQuery compatibility issues. > > The plugin page can be found @ > http://dev.iceburg.net/jquery/jqModal/index.php > > A demonstration of the new toTop method can be found @ > http://dev.iceburg.net/jquery/jqModal/toTop.html > > The z-Index issue effects many-a-user of many-a-dialog-script... and > thus may prove of interest to you even if you *don't* use jqModal. > > Hope you're all having an enjoyable weekend && || coding experience! > > ~ Brice > > ** I decided to add to the base for convenience. For those die-hards, > the same functionality of the toTop method could be added via the > onShow and onClose callback functions using the following code; > > [!-- JS --] > > var showModal = function(h) { > // remember DOM posistion of window > h.w.before('<span id="jqmPlace'+h.w[0]._jqm+'"></span>'); > > // NOTE: above can be combined in the chain... > // move after overlay (child of body), avoids z-index issues > // show window > h.w.insertAfter(h.o).show(); > }; > > var closeModal = function(h) { > > // remove overlay > h.o.remove(); > > // restore DOM position of window > // remove placeholder > // hide window > $('#jqmPlace'+h.w[0]._jqm).after(h.w.hide()).remove(); > }; > >
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