seafarer/reveal

Fork of the pre-foundation reveal modal for use as a standalone popup

Step 1: Attach Needed Files

/* Attach the Reveal CSS */
<link rel="stylesheet" href="reveal.css">

/* jQuery needs to be attached */
<script src="jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

/* Then just attach the Reveal plugin */
<script src="jquery.reveal.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Step 2: The Modal Markup

<div id="myModal" class="reveal-modal">
  <h1>Modal Title</h1>
  <p>Any content could go in here.</p>
  <a class="close-reveal-modal">&#215;</a>
</div>

Step 3: Attaching Your Handler

<a href="#" data-reveal-id="myModal">Click Me For A Modal</a>

By putting the "data-reveal-id" attribute on the anchor, when clicked the plugin matches the value of the "data-reveal-id" attribute (in this case "myModal") with an HTML element with that ID.

Basically, put the "data-reveal-id" attribute on an object and make it's value the ID of your modal.

While the "data-reveal-id" is an awesome way to make firing a modal stupid-easy, in many cases developers will still need to be fired programatically. That's easy enough too...

Options

Every good plugin has options, and this one has just a few, but important ones:

$('#myModal').reveal({
  animation: 'fadeAndPop',                   //fade, fadeAndPop, none
  animationspeed: 300,                       //how fast animtions are
  closeonbackgroundclick: true,              //if you click background will modal close?
  dismissmodalclass: 'close-reveal-modal'    //the class of a button or element that will close an open modal
 });

Wondering how to use the options when you're using the "data-reveal-id" implementation? Basically take the option and add the "data-" before and pass a valid value. Here is it with default values:

<a href="#" data-reveal-id="myModal" data-animation="fadeAndPop" data-animationspeed="300" 
data-closeonbackgroundclick="true" data-dismissmodalclass="close-reveal-modal">Click for a modal</a>

The Reveal plugin is licensed to use and abuse under the MIT license. Ballin!