How to display a pop up notification to the user using jquery?

Question

I am developing an application which requires that user must be notified about some background events i.e. invitation from other user, reminder time out etc.

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Answer 1

this will give a notification similar to the stackoverflow

jQuery

$("#notification").fadeIn("slow").append('your message');
$(".dismiss").click(function(){
       $("#notification").fadeOut("slow");
});

HTML

  x

CSS

#notification {
    position:fixed;
    top:0px;
    width:100%;
    z-index:105;
    text-align:center;
    font-weight:normal;
    font-size:14px;
    font-weight:bold;
    color:white;
    background-color:#FF7800;
    padding:5px;
}
#notification span.dismiss {
    border:2px solid #FFF;
    padding:0 5px;
    cursor:pointer;
    float:right;
    margin-right:10px;
}
#notification a {
    color:white;
    text-decoration:none;
    font-weight:bold
}

Also take a look at mplungjan's answer on how to listen to server updates and message load