Modal Windows

Few browsers support making modal windows

There is no standard way to make a popup window into a modal dialog box. Both Internet Explorer and the Mozilla based browsers (including Firefox and Netscape 6+) provide a method of making your popup window stay in front of the other windows but the methods used to do this are entirely different. Other browsers don't support creating your own modal dialog window at all. By combining code together to test which method is supported by the browser you can create a popup that will maintain the focus in those browsers that support it and which will still popup in other browsers that don't support modal windows. Always assuming that it isn't blocked by a popup blocker of course.

Modal Windows