Hello everyone, I am a newly graduated web-designer with around two years of experience. I have a solid knowledge of CSS and html coding, but am lacking when it comes to javascript and jquery. I want to create a popup form for joining a mailing list. I envision a box that says something like "Join our Mailing List", and when a user clicks it, a small window will pop up with a form containing elements for name, email, and comment. Then a submit button at the bottom, and probably an x in the top corner for closing the box. I am familiar with how to send and receive forms, but I am having loads of trouble finding information regarding the script to open and close the window. I have google searched my butt off, finding nothing that seems credible enough to try. Thanks in advance for anyone willing to help me out!
Search around for a modal jquery plugin - there are plenty. The html/css framework called bootstrap has a plugin built in if you wanted to try that?
I suggest checking out Fancybox: fancybox.net You can create your form and show it as an inline frame or grab the content from a div on your page. Pretty cool and pretty easy to use!