What is called when a popup appears above the "wepage"?

Question

when you visit http://www.daniweb.com , you get a pop-up window, what is it called + any idea how to do this?

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Thank you for your answer, the easiest way to make a modal loading animation is only when the page loads the animation, and when this happens, does the animation go? ASP.NET/Ajax

Answer 1

You would call it a modal dialog, and you can implement one very simple with jquery ui:

http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal

Answer 2

ANNOYING - JS JQuery.

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

- lightbox/thickbox. /html

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Answer 6

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(They are also annoying, but at least better than pop-unders, IMO ;-))

Answer 7

This is a modal dialog popup. Here is a good version of jQuery that I used before.