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JavaScript

Posted by Sebastian Graus
Sebastian Graus
633 Points

Lightbox on page load

Hi,

I'm trying to display a welcome message on my wordpress site, the same way as this example: http://bartenderschoice.se/ . In the popup window I want to place html-content.

From the source code I've understod that the example uses thickbox, the problem is however is that I do not get how the thickbox loads on page load, and not on a click! Please help!

2 Answers

sheenaoosten
sheenaoosten
690 Points
sheenaoosten
sheenaoosten
690 Points

Try Reveal by Zurb. It activates the lightbox popup on page load (or click if preferred). Can contain any content you wish. Used it on a site and it works a treat and much prettier than the example above :)

http://zurb.com/playground/reveal-modal-plugin

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I'm going to be very honest here, if I go to a site, and the first thing it does is load a popup, I immediately leave the site. That's it, it's done. I'll find another way. I don't care how good the site content it, the user experience is so terrible on my first impression I leave and I never come back.

I'd find a different way to accomplish the same task.