ASP.Net developers who have previously been using the AJAX Control Toolkit will likely have some experience with the
Modal Popup Extender. It's a great tool but admittedly has a fairly large footprint. ASP.Net developers who are now
adopting jQuery may very well be looking for a lighter-weight jQuery
PlugIn that displays dialog boxes. There are lots to choose from but I chose to go with
ThickBox since it has been around awhile and has fairly
good documentation.
But ThickBox was never written with ASP.Net in mind so may not work quite as expected "right out of the box". The
purpose of this page is to demonstrate how it can be effectively used but also to point out its current limitations.
Robert Werner, P.Eng.
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Technical Blog
Note: The biggest limitation of ThickBox that I've encountered is the inability
to run any server-side code and keep the dialog box visible (without flashing
off & on). This clearly isn't an issue with the Modal Popup Extender so perhaps
an ASP.Net savvy developer will be able to figure out how to overcome it. If so,
please do let me know!
You can download the entire code for this page
here.