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DIV Popup with "Lightbox" Style
<html>
<head>
<title>DIV Popup with "Lightbox" Style</title>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>
<style>
/* popup div contents */
DIV.lightbox-content {
position: absolute;
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: 5%;
width: 90%;
top:75px;
z-index: 10002;
background-color: white;
border:1px solid;
border-color: #ccc;
padding: 5px;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px #000000;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px #000000;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px #000000;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
text-align:left;
overflow-y: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
padding: 10px 0 26px;
-webkit-transition: opacity 0.4s linear;
}
/* the overlay that whites out the background while the lightbox is displayed */
.lightbox-white-overlay{
background-color: #000000;
height: 100%;
left: 0%;;
position: fixed;
top: 0%;
width: 100%;
z-index: 10001;
-webkit-transition: opacity 0.4s linear;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h2>DIV Popup with "Lightbox" Style</h2>
<p>
<a href="javascript://" onclick="new Lightbox('aKey', '<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Box Contents Go Here<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>')">Open Lightbox</a>
</p>
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<script>
function Lightbox(id, content) {
var self = this;
var box;
var boxContent;
var whiteOverlay;
function init(){
// we want to display the details in a div layer floating above the main content
box = $("#lightbox");
boxContent = $("#lightbox .lightbox-content");
whiteOverlay = $("#lightbox .lightbox-white-overlay");
if(box.length == 0) {
// we don't have a lightbox div yet so create one at the bottom of the page
box = $('<div id="lightbox" class="lightbox"/>')
$('body').append(box);
boxContent = $('<div class="lightbox-content"></div>');
box.append(boxContent);
whiteOverlay = $('<div class="lightbox-white-overlay"></div>');
box.append(whiteOverlay);
}
// register the ESC key handler
$(document).bind('keydown', escKeyHandler);
// populate with dummy content for now
boxContent.html(content);
// make it visible (not visually, that's done with opacity, but structurally)
// we set display:none in the close method so that it doesn't intercept clicks
whiteOverlay.css('display', 'block');
boxContent.css('display', 'block');
// transition the opacity
whiteOverlay.css("opacity", 0.4);
boxContent.css("opacity", "1.0");
// size the box
resizeToContents();
};
/*
* Listen for esc key and close the box
*/
function escKeyHandler(e) {
if(e && e.keyCode == 27){
// if the key pressed is the escape key, close the box
close();
}
}
function resizeToContents() {
/* set the max height to viewport height minus space for header and footer of box */
var contentHeight = boxContent.height();
var viewportHeight = getViewportHeight();
/* we want to keep space both top and bottom, so the maxHeight must be viewport-250px or smaller */
var possibleHeight = viewportHeight - 150;
console.log("contentHeight: " + contentHeight + " possibleHeight: " + possibleHeight + " viewport height: " + viewportHeight);
// set the maxHeight to the possibleHeight
boxContent.css('maxHeight', possibleHeight + "px");
var scrollOffset = $(document.viewport).scrollTop();
// we are doing absolute positioning instead of fixed, so we need to calculate where we are on the page to show it
boxContent.css('top', (scrollOffset + 60) + 'px');
// prevent scrolling
preventScrolling(scrollOffset);
}
/* used by firefox preventScrolling implementation so that we can stopObserving this */
var scrollListener = 'placeholder';
function preventScrolling(offset) {
if (pageHasScrollBar()) {
if (BrowserDetect.browser == "Firefox") {
//NOTE: this isn't working properly on Firefox right now. I had it working at some point in the past but it's not right now.
// I don't have time to figure it out now so am leaving the code as is with this note
var offsetToStayAt = $(document.viewport).scrollTop();
scrollListener = function(event) {
console.log("scroll here");
window.scrollTo(0, offsetToStayAt);
}
$('document').bind('scroll', scrollListener);
} else {
/* compensate for hiding the scrollbar so that we don't 'bounce' the page back and forth */
var scrollerWidth = getScrollerWidth();
if (scrollerWidth == 0) {
scrollerWidth = 17;
// default on IE
}
// generally this should be 15 on Safari and Firefox
document.documentElement.style.paddingRight = scrollerWidth + "px";
document.documentElement.style.overflow = "hidden";
}
}
}
function allowScrolling() {
if (pageHasScrollBar()) {
if (BrowserDetect.browser == "Firefox") {
document.stopObserving('scroll', scrollListener);
} else {
/* compensate for hiding the scrollbar so that we don't 'bounce' the page back and forth */
document.documentElement.style.paddingRight = "";
document.documentElement.style.overflow = "auto";
}
}
}
function close() {
/* stop listening for the esc key */
$(document).unbind('keydown', escKeyHandler);
var transitionEndFunction = function(event) {
// make it invisible so it stops intercepting all clicks
whiteOverlay.css('display', 'none');
boxContent.css('display', 'none');
// enable scrolling again now that we're closing the lightbox (do it here so the page resize is done after the lightbox fades away)
allowScrolling();
if (BrowserDetect.engine == "WebKit") {
whiteOverlay.unbind('webkitTransitionEnd');
} else {
whiteOverlay.unbind('transitionend');
}
}
if (BrowserDetect.engine == "WebKit") {
whiteOverlay.bind('webkitTransitionEnd', transitionEndFunction);
} else {
whiteOverlay.bind('transitionend', transitionEndFunction);
}
if (BrowserDetect.engine == "Gecko") {
// the transitionend event is not happening so this is here to make Firefox work without animation
whiteOverlay.css('display', 'none');
boxContent.css('display', 'none');
}
boxContent.css("opacity", "0");
whiteOverlay.css("opacity", "0");
}
/* whether the browser page has a scrollbar present */
function pageHasScrollBar() {
if (getDocumentHeight() > getViewportHeight()) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
function scrollPosition() {
if(!pageHasScrollBar()) {
return 0;
}
var scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
if (scrollTop == 0) {
if (window.pageYOffset)
scrollTop = window.pageYOffset;
else
scrollTop = (document.body.parentElement) ? document.body.parentElement.scrollTop : 0;
}
return scrollTop;
}
//Get the height of the entire document
function getDocumentHeight() {
if (document.documentElement && (!document.compatMode || document.compatMode=="CSS1Compat")) {
var topMargin = parseInt($(document.body).css('marginTop'),10) || 0;
var bottomMargin = parseInt($(document.body).css('marginBottom'), 10) || 0;
return Math.max(document.body.offsetHeight + topMargin + bottomMargin, document.documentElement.clientHeight, document.documentElement.scrollHeight, 0);
}
return Math.max(document.body.scrollHeight, document.body.clientHeight, 0);
};
//Get the height of the viewport
function getViewportHeight() {
if (!window.opera && document.documentElement && (!document.compatMode || document.compatMode=="CSS1Compat")) {
return document.documentElement.clientHeight;
}
else if (document.compatMode && !window.opera && document.body) {
return document.body.clientHeight;
}
return 0;
};
// Get the width of the viewport
function getViewportWidth() {
if (document.documentElement && (!document.compatMode || document.compatMode=="CSS1Compat")) {
return document.documentElement.clientWidth;
}
else if (document.compatMode && document.body) {
return document.body.clientWidth;
}
return 0;
};
function getScrollerWidth() {
var scr = null;
var inn = null;
var wNoScroll = 0;
var wScroll = 0;
// Outer scrolling div
scr = document.createElement('div');
scr.style.position = 'absolute';
scr.style.top = '-1000px';
scr.style.left = '-1000px';
scr.style.width = '100px';
scr.style.height = '50px';
// Start with no scrollbar
scr.style.overflow = 'hidden';
// Inner content div
inn = document.createElement('div');
inn.style.width = '100%';
inn.style.height = '200px';
// Put the inner div in the scrolling div
scr.appendChild(inn);
// Append the scrolling div to the doc
document.body.appendChild(scr);
// Width of the inner div sans scrollbar
wNoScroll = inn.offsetWidth;
// Add the scrollbar
scr.style.overflow = 'auto';
// Width of the inner div width scrollbar
wScroll = inn.offsetWidth;
// Remove the scrolling div from the doc
document.body.removeChild(
document.body.lastChild);
// Pixel width of the scroller
return (wNoScroll - wScroll);
}
// call init on instantiation
init();
}
/* ******************************************************************************** */
/* BROWSER DETECT */
/* ******************************************************************************** */
var BrowserDetect = {
init: function () {
this.browser = this.searchString(this.dataBrowser) || "An unknown browser";
this.engine = this.searchString(this.dataEngine) || "An unknown engine";
this.version = this.searchVersion(navigator.userAgent)
|| this.searchVersion(navigator.appVersion)
|| "an unknown version";
this.OS = this.searchString(this.dataOS) || "an unknown OS";
},
searchString: function (data) {
for (var i=0;i<data.length;i++) {
var dataString = data[i].string;
var dataProp = data[i].prop;
this.versionSearchString = data[i].versionSearch || data[i].identity;
if (dataString) {
if (dataString.indexOf(data[i].subString) != -1)
return data[i].identity;
}
else if (dataProp)
return data[i].identity;
}
},
searchVersion: function (dataString) {
var index = dataString.indexOf(this.versionSearchString);
if (index == -1) return;
return parseFloat(dataString.substring(index+this.versionSearchString.length+1));
},
dataBrowser: [
{
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Chrome",
identity: "Chrome"
},
{ string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "OmniWeb",
versionSearch: "OmniWeb/",
identity: "OmniWeb"
},
{
string: navigator.vendor,
subString: "Apple",
identity: "Safari",
versionSearch: "Version"
},
{
prop: window.opera,
identity: "Opera"
},
{
string: navigator.vendor,
subString: "iCab",
identity: "iCab"
},
{
string: navigator.vendor,
subString: "KDE",
identity: "Konqueror"
},
{
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Firefox",
identity: "Firefox"
},
{
string: navigator.vendor,
subString: "Camino",
identity: "Camino"
},
{ // for newer Netscapes (6+)
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Netscape",
identity: "Netscape"
},
{
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "MSIE",
identity: "Explorer",
versionSearch: "MSIE"
},
{
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Gecko",
identity: "Mozilla",
versionSearch: "rv"
},
{ // for older Netscapes (4-)
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Mozilla",
identity: "Netscape",
versionSearch: "Mozilla"
}
],
dataOS : [
{
string: navigator.platform,
subString: "Win",
identity: "Windows"
},
{
string: navigator.platform,
subString: "Mac",
identity: "Mac"
},
{
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "iPhone",
identity: "iPhone/iPod"
},
{
string: navigator.platform,
subString: "Linux",
identity: "Linux"
}
],
dataEngine : [
{
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "WebKit",
identity: "WebKit"
},
{
string: navigator.userAgent,
subString: "Gecko/",
identity: "Gecko"
}
]
};
BrowserDetect.init();
/* ******************************************************************************** */
/* END BROWSER DETECT */
/* ******************************************************************************** */
</script>
</body>
</html>
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A work-in-progress on adapting some code I did before to more general scenarios and migrating from prototype/scriptaculous to jQuery/CSSAnimation.

  • Display a DIV styled as a lightbox floating over the main page with Esc key listener (and can include close button if desired)
  • Fit the DIV within the viewport, either fitting the box to the content, or to a max size within the viewport and with scrollbars in the box (content scrolls, not box)
  • If scrollbars in the box are needed and the main viewport has scrollbars it will try to hide those so that the box is fixed in place (no accidental scrolling of the box when scrolling to the bottom of it's content)
  • Webkit is working well. Firefox has some issues with scrollbars and CSS Animations (I had it working in the past before migrating from prototype to jQuery). IE used to work but I have not tested my changes so I doubt it's working.

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