Wouldn’t it be convenient if instead of going to another page to ask someone, all you’ll have to do is click on a link and a pop up ask box would appear? It saves a lot of seconds and that awful background music wouldn’t have to reload all over again. So for anyone who likes that, here’s a little treat.
This trick would involve a lot of copy-paste on your custom HTML so be sure to follow all the instructions carefully. The Pop-up jQuery codes was created by the awesome Soh Tanaka by the way so all the credits on the pop-up div goes to him.
First, proceed to your customize page, click on Edit HTML button, then add this set of codes just ABOVE the </style> tag.
#fade {
display: none;
background: #000;
position: fixed;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
opacity: .60;
z-index: 9999;
}
.popup_block{
display: none;
background: #fff;
padding: 20px;
border: 20px solid #ddd;
float: left;
font-size: 1.2em;
position: fixed;
top: 50%; left: 50%;
z-index: 99999;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px #000;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px #000;
box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px #000;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
}
img.btn_close {
float: right;
margin: -55px -55px 0 0;
}
*html #fade {
position: absolute;
}
*html .popup_block {
position: absolute;
}
You can change the color of the fade div to any color you like by replacing hex color in the underlined part(background: #000). You can use Colorpicker to choose a color then replace the #000 part.
Next, add these jQuery codes at the bottom of your custom HTML, just above </body> tag.
<div id="popup_name" class="popup_block">
<h2>Ask me Anything!</h2>
<p><iframe frameborder="0" border="0" scrolling="no" width="400" height="190" allowtransparency="true" src="http://www.tumblr.com/ask_form/{Name}.tumblr.com" style="background-color:transparent; overflow:hidden;"></iframe></p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
//Code goes here
});
//When you click on a link with class of poplight and the href starts with a #
$('a.poplight[href^=#]').click(function() {
var popID = $(this).attr('rel'); //Get Popup Name
var popURL = $(this).attr('href'); //Get Popup href to define size
//Pull Query & Variables from href URL
var query= popURL.split('?');
var dim= query[1].split('&');
var popWidth = dim[0].split('=')[1]; //Gets the first query string value
//Fade in the Popup and add close button
$('#' + popID).fadeIn().css({ 'width': Number( popWidth ) }).prepend('<a href="#" class="close"><img src="http://static.tumblr.com/qrevc1p/SEBlsqdsu/close_button.png" class="btn_close" title="Close Window" alt="Close" /></a>');
//Define margin for center alignment (vertical horizontal) - we add 80px to the height/width to accomodate for the padding and border width defined in the css
var popMargTop = ($('#' + popID).height() + 80) / 2;
var popMargLeft = ($('#' + popID).width() + 80) / 2;
//Apply Margin to Popup
$('#' + popID).css({
'margin-top' : -popMargTop,
'margin-left' : -popMargLeft
});
//Fade in Background
$('body').append('<div id="fade"></div>'); //Add the fade layer to bottom of the body tag.
$('#fade').css({'filter' : 'alpha(opacity=80)'}).fadeIn(); //Fade in the fade layer - .css({'filter' : 'alpha(opacity=80)'}) is used to fix the IE Bug on fading transparencies
return false;
});
//Close Popups and Fade Layer
$('a.close, #fade').live('click', function() { //When clicking on the close or fade layer...
$('#fade , .popup_block').fadeOut(function() {
$('#fade, a.close').remove(); //fade them both out
});
return false;
});
</script>
You can change The Ask me anything part into anything you like. You can also change the underlined part with any small image you want to act as a close button.
Lastly, search for codes that goes like this: <a href=”/ask>Something is in here</a>. Note that this may differ from theme to theme so the Something-is-in-here part may be different. But it usually starts with <a href=”/ask”>. If you find it, delete that up to the </a> part then replace it with these:
<a href="#?w=400" rel="popup_name" class="poplight">Ask me!</a>
After that, hit save and try it out. If you had problems in setting this up or anything, you can always hit my ask box up. It’s not pop-up though so you’ll have to get redirected.
