question about effect on imeem.com

[IceBergSLiM]

When you goto:
http://www.imeem.com/backyy/mu...oa-death-of-auto-tune/

The page loads then a second or two after its done loading there appears a transparent grey layer over the page that says you need to login to continue.

Programatically how is this done? What language? C#/asp? php? javascript?

What is this effect called?

EDIT:

Dell.com has the effect when you click login here:

http://www.dell.com/content/to...gin/signin?c=us&~ck=pn

 

[Crusty]

That's done with javascript, browse to the site with noscript installed and the login overlay doesn't appear, but as soon as javascript is enabled it shows up.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: Crusty
That's done with javascript, browse to the site with noscript installed and the login overlay doesn't appear, but as soon as javascript is enabled it shows up.

Ok any ideas on how its done? Or what the effect is called so I can google it and streal shamelessly?

 

[imported_Dhaval00]

It is an overlay (or a modal) window and you can get Google hits using terms like "javascript overlay login." The easiest way to implement this would be to use jQuery UI: http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal-form.

If you want to get to the underlying details, refer to the sample here: http://particletree.com/features/lightbox-gone-wild/. This is not a fool-proof sample, and is quite old, but it gives you the basic idea of how things can be implemented using CSS and JavaScript.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

great thanks

 

[IceBergSLiM]

FYI I discovered its part of the standard ajax component toolkit for asp.net

http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxCo...lPopup/ModalPopup.aspx

modalpopup ftw!