Have you ever wished of doing something more with what you have been doing with jQuery thickbox? Now it has been more then 6 months that I am using jQuery on different projects. I have extended jQuery many a times during this period and to tell you one thing I have used jQuery for heavy-weight form processing for one of my very complicated project and it included processing of more then 1600 html controls with the help of great jQuery.

Now when it comes to Thickbox it gives nice functionality but many a times it leaves us hungry for more. For example here are the few situations where it will be difficult to use Thickbox without further modification.

• It let's open window in a IFRAME and close that but what if you can't give 'class="Thickbox"' to any of your link?
• What if you are not loading those links with page load? (If the links from which you are willing to open Thickbox windows is not available at the time of page load then Thickbox won't work. As Thickbox internally works in a way that it will search for all links with class = "Thickbox" at the time of page load and then customize their onclick events.)
• What if you want to open second Thickbox window as someone close first one and that too without any user interaction?
• What if you want to call any javascript function from the parent window? (parent window is the window from which parent window is getting opened.)

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Tags: Javascript, jQuery, thickbox