Overlay a Lightbox on a Page

March 20, 2010 by Austin Hallock

Here’s a cool script I just made that allows you to overlay a lightbox with whatever you want in it on any page (Google, this site, etc)

Drag the link below into your bookmarks

and click it on any site you want to cloak / put a “light box” (an overlaying box) on. When you click the bookmarklet it’ll ask what you want to show in the box, just type that, hit save and you’re done.

Overlay

Here’s an example: Google
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Hope you like it and let me know how I can improve it!

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18 Comments »

Derek Ivey says:

March 21, 2010 at 7:05 am

This is awesome! Nice job!

Austin says:

March 21, 2010 at 7:18 am

Thanks

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John says:

March 21, 2010 at 9:33 am

Wow great stuff, I am still amazed at all this

Karen says:

March 21, 2010 at 2:56 pm

I'm on a Mac using Firefox and don't seem to be able to "drag the link to Bookmarks". I'm lost. ???

Austin says:

March 21, 2010 at 5:57 pm

Hey Karen, I'm also on a Mac using Firefox and it works just fine. Just grab the orange box and move it up to the bookmark bar.

If that still doesn't work you can right click it and select "Bookmark this Link"

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Janee says:

March 24, 2010 at 6:34 am

WOW! I admire your work!

Austin Hallock says:

March 24, 2010 at 9:21 am

Thanks Janee!

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Brian says:

March 26, 2010 at 1:38 pm

Hi Austin, I'm using Chrome and I can't seem to get it to work. I got it into the bookmark bar, but when I click on it, nothing happens.
Thanks for your help!

Austin says:

March 26, 2010 at 5:39 pm

Brian, in chrome it occasionally wouldn't work due to files not loading in order, but I think this is fixed now.

Let me know,
Austin

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Brian says:

March 27, 2010 at 12:18 pm

Hi Austin, I still can't get it to work. I click on it and nothing happens.

Brian says:

March 27, 2010 at 9:05 am

Hey I got it to work. I guess I was just too impatient. I tried it like 10 times, then I had to get up from the computer to get something and when I came back it was up. I guess I just had to wait like 45-60 seconds for it to pop up. Anyway, I got it to work and I’m going to test it out to see how it works on my ThumbVu sites.
Thanks Again,
Brian

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- Austin says:
  
  March 27, 2010 at 6:50 pm
  
  Sounds good Brian — it might've just been the old version cached, who knows.
  
  If you continue to have problems though, you can drag this one to your bookmarks bar:
  http://austinhallock.com/overlay2.php
  
  It's just a less fancy looking one — though the overlay pages it makes will still be the fancy version.
  
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Austin dwi says:

April 16, 2010 at 5:49 am

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