Driver.js is lightweight, no-dependency, vanilla JavaScript engine to drive user's focus across the page with animation or without animation.
Some ideas for multi-layered SVG shape overlays that get generated dynamically with adjustable properties for a variety of effects.
jQuery LoadingOverlay is a flexible loading overlay jQuery plugin.
HoldOn.js is a jQuery plugin to create CSS UI blocker. It's useful to prevent that your user do something wrong while something in the background is executed.
Purplecoat.js is a jQuery plugin that lets you create labeled overlays that can be triggered with a click. And you don't need to write a single line of Javascript.
isLoading is a simple jQuery plugin to show visual feedback when loading data or any action that would take time. You can use isLoading as;
Chardin.js is a jQuery plugin that creates a simple overlay to display instructions on existent elements. It is inspired by the recent Gmail new composer tour.
Vegas is a jQuery plugin to add beautiful fullscreen backgrounds to your webpages. You can even create amazing Slideshows.
Boxer is a quick and simple way to display images, inline-content or iFramed URLs in a lightbox-style modal.
Lightview allows you to easily create the most beautiful overlay windows using the jQuery Javascript library.
By combining support for a wide range of media with gorgeous skins and a user-friendly API, Lightview aims to push the Lightbox concept as far as possible.
Lightview uses HTML5 to help you deliver the best experience across every browser. Let it enhance your media automatically or create custom overlays using the powerful Javascript API.
Avgrund is a jQuery plugin for modal boxes and popups. It uses interesting concept showing depth between popup and page. It works in all modern browsers and gracefully degrade in those that do not support CSS transitions and transformations (e.g. in IE 6-9 has standard behavior).
FrameWrap is a jQuery plugin for showing pages of your site with a pretty, css-driven, transition effect. It sets an API bridge for easy message passing.
– Lightweight ; it is created specifically for showing pages, not images;
– No UI, so the page feels like a dialog window;
– The page can close itself, and can also send messages to the parent window;
– Can optionally use a cache for faster subsequent page loads;
– Uses a neat
Reveal is a jQuery plugin for dead simple modals that comes with some sexy base CSS and can be implemented programatically or with the new HTML5 custom data attributes (data-attribute).