Hi Michael, did you tried the blockUI plugin? It should fit your requirements.
Check it here http://malsup.com/jquery/block/#dialog -- Luca On Jul 1, 6:44 am, "Michael Brennan-White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jQuery Newbie question. > > I work for a state government and need to display a message letting > the user know a link is to an external site. In the past I have > obviously used a javascript alert() but would rather use something > nicer which could hopefully allow the use of a background image and > readable text. > > I have been playing around with the dialog piece of the jquery ui but > find that it is beyond my skill level at this point. If you have some > code (or can point me to some code) that would > a. Display a dialog box when a link of a certain type was clicked in > the center of the browser window. > b. Contain confirmation buttons in the dialog. If either buttons > were clicked, the dialog box would be hidden or destroyed. > c. If the Yes button was clicked I would like to open the link they > were clicking on. > > Thank you very much for reading this message and in advance for your > assistance, > > Michael