Comments on: Look What’s Just Popped Up!

By: Guld Ørestikker

Guld Ørestikker — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:11:24 +0000

I am looking for a pup up like this, it look great, i will test it to see if i can use it on my magento site

By: stone crusher

stone crusher — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:16:37 +0000

And to piggyback off of John’s comments. Positioning off the screen and then revealing is good for search engines too, because they can still index the content. Sometimes I have used that approach over Ajax for that reason. That may be another article…

By: stone crusher

stone crusher — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:15:49 +0000

Well they just wanted it fixed and not to scroll away because that’s what they saw somewhere else

By: Jordan Garn

Jordan Garn — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:38:03 +0000

Excellent tutorial, although it would be slightly hard to implement in larger projects.

By: Vince

Vince — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:38:04 +0000

Thanks for this, but what a wonderful world it would be without IE

By: dogesperoms

dogesperoms — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:43:06 +0000

Hello

As newly registered user i only wanted to say hi to everyone else who uses this bbs

By: Samz

Samz — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:12:51 +0000

Amazing.. Thank You very much..

By: Neon

Neon — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:47:07 +0000

Thank you for article …

By: Golgotha

Golgotha — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:43:57 +0000

By: Paul OB

Paul OB — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:38:13 +0000

Good points John and I agree with what you are saying – Thanks for the comments

By: John

John — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:54:20 +0000

I have also used display:none to turn the messages off but it would be better for accessibility reasons to just position them all off screen using left:-999em with absolute positioning.

It will depend on the situation. If the popup content is only supposed to be available after some user action (or inaction), e.g., to do with form submission, then you’d be better to use display: none (and as Gez Lemon noted recently, you should combine that with visibility:hidden to make sure the content really is hidden for certain screenreaders); for content that you want to be available at all times and merely hide and reveal due to aesthetic or design decisions, then position it offscreen.

By: Golgotha

Golgotha — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:05:57 +0000

Yeah, I suppose the fixed positioning separates it from the others and could be useful for like a wizard or something that needs satisfying before allowing a user to move on. I get it now…

Good lesson.

oh and I think Kredyt liked the article, just not pop-ups?

By: Paul OB

Paul OB — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:29:44 +0000

Hi Mark
Re:”Although I’m scratching my head as to why they need the content still scrollable underneath the message box?”

Well they just wanted it fixed and not to scroll away because that’s what they saw somewhere else

Anyway it was a good excuse to throw in the fixed positioning into the article.

@Kredyt – Thank you for your comments sorry you didn’t like it.

By: Kredyt

Kredyt — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:48:03 +0000

Thank you for article I hate Pop-up

By: Golgotha

Golgotha — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:53:19 +0000

Nice work Paul! Although I’m scratching my head as to why they need the content still scrollable underneath the message box?