Can someone tell me what that “dimming effect” is called when you visit a webpage and the whole page gets “dimmed” or “blurred” and there is an image or form in the middle of the screen?
To see the rest of the webpage you have to close the image or form in the middle of the screen.
Is there some software which is used to set that up or something?
All I know is it’s a dimming effect that uses JS because I have seen it on some image galleries but now I am seeing it more and more on webpages (for example when they ask you to login and show that effect along with the login form).
Any help in the form of links, code or recommendations would really be appreciated.
Thanks!
It’s called a lightbox; there are tons of libraries to place one on your page.
A number of them are plugins based on more abstract libraries such as jQuery, due to the ease of use to implement effects and animations (like this plugin).