Question

I came across a really nice looking form while using RapidShare and I was curious as to how they made it. If you look HERE and click on “Eliminate annoying waiting with RapidPro!” a menu / form will appear. I am using Intuit to design my webpage and I was curious whether or not this was actually a form that is appearing in front of me.

As a possible side question – Is there an easy way to make a nice looking table with checkboxes in it similar to the one displayed by RapidShare? I really like this method for comparing and contrasting two different plans.

Thank you for reading,

Evan

Answer 1

Yes, the contents of that “popup” is a plain HTML table with some css to make it fancier. All they are doing is using Javascript to animate a div to popup into the center of the screen, and using css to style it nicely. They seem to have a custom solution that doesn’t use jQuery, but there are many framework plugins that do the same:

• Lightbox for prototype.js
• Lightbox for jQuery
• Fancybox or jQuery
• Colorbox for jQuery

There are others too.