Fade in overlay in modal dialog

Question

I have a JQuery UI dialog which is modal and has a black background with 50% opacity. Is it possible to make the background opacity fade from 0% to 50%? If so, how? Because c

Answer 1

You can use the jQuery fadeTo() function. More information can be found on the link below. http://docs.jquery.com/Effects/fadeTo#speedopacitycallback

Answer 2

You could also add this to fadeIn the modal:

$(loginForm).dialog({
        resizable: false,
        open: function(){
            $('.ui-widget-overlay').hide().fadeIn();
        },
        show: "fade",
        hide: "fade" 
});

Hope this helps :)

Answer 3

I know this is an old question, but I came across it just now in a search, and feel I could help other people.

This could be improved I'm sure but this will fade in and out your overlay when using a jQuery UI dialog.

open: function(){
    $('.ui-widget-overlay').hide().fadeIn();
},
beforeClose: function(){
    $('.ui-widget-overlay').remove();
    $("<div />", {
        'class':'ui-widget-overlay'
    }).css(
        {
            height: $("body").outerHeight(),
            width: $("body").outerWidth(),
            zIndex: 1001
        }
    ).appendTo("body").fadeOut(function(){
        $(this).remove();
    });
}

Answer 4

You could create your own widget extending $.ui.dialog to add overlay show and hide animations with accurate configuration using option.

Another lacking functionality to close dialog by click on overlay is also easily added:

in some file, say jquery-ui.fsrc.dialog.js:

(function( $, undefined ) {

$.widget('fsrc.fsrc_dialog', $.ui.dialog, {
open: function() {
    // some helpful vars
    var self = this,
        options = self.options;

    // call parent method - it will create overlay and save it in self.overlay variable
    var ret = $.ui.dialog.prototype.open.apply(this, arguments);

    if (options.showOverlay) {
        // immediately hide and animate overlay
        // kind a hack, but jquery ui developers left no better way
        self.overlay.$el.hide().show(options.showOverlay)
    }
    if (options.closeOnOverlay) {
        // close dialog on click on overlay
        self.overlay.$el.click(function() {
            self.close();
        })
    }
    return ret;
},
close: function(event) {
    var self = this,
        options = self.options;

    if (options.hideOverlay) {
        // save and unset self.overlay, so it will not be destroyed by parent function during animation
        var overlay = self.overlay
        self.overlay = null;
        overlay.$el.hide(options.hideOverlay, function() {
            // destroy overlay after animation as parent would do
            overlay.destroy();
        })
    }

    // call parent method
    var ret = $.ui.dialog.prototype.close.apply(this, arguments);
    return ret;
}
});

}(jQuery));

In page:

<script src='/js/jquery-ui.fsrc.dialog.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
    jQuery(document).ready(function(){
        jQuery('#show').click(function(){
            jQuery('#order_form_container').fsrc_dialog({
                modal: true,
                closeOnOverlay: true,
                show: {effect: "fade", duration: 500},
                showOverlay: {effect: "fade", duration: 500},
                hide: {effect: "fade", duration: 300},
                hideOverlay: {effect: "fade", duration: 300},
            });
        })
    })
-->
</script>`

I named namespace, widget and options to my favor.

Tested jquery1.7.2, jquery-ui1.8.19, IE9, ff11, chrome18.0.1025.168m, opera11.61

Answer 5

$('.ui-widget-overlay').hide().fadeIn();

This effect has issue on IE as the opacity won't work after fade in

Answer 6

I had to modify the answer from Sam Barnes to make it work (I also threw the dialog click function in a $(document).ready function):

<script type='text/javascript'>
  $(".dialog").click(function(){
    $('.ui-widget-overlay').hide().fadeIn();        
    $("div.dialog").dialog({
        resizable: false,
        close: function(){
            $('.ui-widget-overlay').hide();
        },
        show: "fade",
        hide: "fade" 
    });
    $(".ui-dialog").fadeIn();
    return false;
  });
  $(".ui-widget-overlay").click(function(){
    $(this).hide();
    $(".ui-dialog").hide();
  });
</script>
<style>
  .ui-widget-overlay {
    background: black;
    opacity: 0.5;
    filter: alpha(opacity = 50);
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
   }
</style>
<div class='ui-widget-overlay'></div>
<div class='dialog' title='Heading!'>Some Message!</div>

You can add the thing that hides on escape button press by adding:

$(document).keyup(function(e) {

  if (e.keyCode == 27) { 
       $(".ui-dialog").hide();
       $('.ui-widget-overlay').hide();
  }
});