A small, compact, and highly configurable jQuery plugin for creating beautiful modal dialog boxes

Zebra Dialog  

A small, compact, mobile-friendly and highly configurable jQuery plugin for creating responsive modal dialog boxes

A modal window is a child window that requires users to interact with it before they can continue using the parent application. Modal windows are one of the most commonly used user interface elements and are used to command user awareness in order to communicate important information, or to alert of errors or warnings.

Zebra Dialog is a small (~10KB minified, 3KB gzipped), compact (one JavaScript file, no dependencies other than jQuery 1.7.0+), mobile-friendly and highly configurable jQuery plugin for creating responsive modal dialog boxes, meant to replace native JavaScript alert, confirm and prompt dialog boxes.

Can also be used as a notification widget (when configured to show no buttons and to close automatically) for updates or errors, without distracting users from their browser experience by displaying obtrusive alerts.

Features

• great looking dialog boxes, out of the box, with 3 beautiful themes included
• 6 types of dialog boxes available: confirmation, error, information, prompt, question and warning
• content can also be added through AJAX calls, iFrames or from inline elements (together with attached events)
• easily customisable appearance by editing the CSS file
• create modal or non-modal dialog boxes
• easily add custom buttons
• position the dialog box wherever you want - not just in the middle of the screen
• callback functions can be used for further customisations
• use callback functions to handle users' choice
• works on mobile devices
• works in pretty much any browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera, Internet Explorer 6+)

For the classic theme, the icons used for confirmation, information, error and question dialog boxes are made by DryIcon while the warning icon is made by Function Design & Development Studio.

For the flat theme, the icons used are made by Elegant Themes

For the materialize theme theme, the icons used are taken from Google's Material Design "design language".

Demo

See the demos

Requirements

Zebra Dialog has no dependencies other than jQuery 1.7.0+

Installation

Zebra Dialog is available as a npm package. To install it use:

# the "--save" argument adds the plugin as a dependency in packages.json
npm install zebra_dialog --save

Zebra Dialog is also available as a Bower package. To install it use:

# the "--save" argument adds the plugin as a dependency in bower.json
bower install zebra_dialog --save

How to use

First, load jQuery from a CDN and provide a fallback to a local source like:

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.0.min.js"></script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="path/to/jquery-3.5.0.js"><\/script>')</script>

Load the Zebra Dialog jQuery plugin:

<script src="path/to/zebra_dialog.min.js"></script>

Alternatively, you can load Zebra Dialog from JSDelivr CDN like this:

<!-- for the most recent version, not recommended in production -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/zebra_dialog.min.js"></script>

<!-- for a specific version -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/zebra_dialog.min.js"></script>

<!-- replacing "min" with "src" will serve you the non-compressed version -->

Load the style sheet file from a local source

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/theme/zebra_dialog.min.css">

...or from JSDelivr CDN

<!-- for the most recent version of the "flat" theme -->
<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/flat/zebra_dialog.min.css">

<!-- for the most recent version of the "default" theme -->
<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/default/zebra_dialog.min.css">

<!-- replacing "min" with "src" will serve you the non-compressed version -->

Now, within the DOM-ready event do

$(document).ready(function() {

    // show a dialog box when clicking on an element
    $('#element').on('click', function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        new $.Zebra_Dialog('The link was clicked!');
    });

});

Configuration options

Properties

Events

Methods

close()

Call this method to manually close a dialog box.

var dialog = new $.Zebra_Dialog('This is some information');

dialog.close();

update()

Use this method to adjust the dialog box's position after content is changed dynamically, at run-time.

var dialog = new $.Zebra_Dialog('This is some information');

// change the content in the dialog box
$('.ZebraDialog_Body').html('New content');

dialog.update();

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