html Modal popup

Question

How to make a simple modal popup for the following code.And on click on the background the modal popup should not disappear.

Answer 1

jQueryUI has a modal dialog plugin. It won't release control simply by clicking the background, as you requested: http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/#modal

Show Modal Box

  Hello World

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$(".showModal").click(function(e){
  e.preventDefault();
  $("#modalContents").dialog({bgiframe: true, height: 140, modal: true});
});