Advanced DHTML Popup Features

General Information

Advanced DHTML Popup makes the creation of various types of DHTML popup windows easy and fast, within a user friendly Windows™ application that requires no JavaScript experience from the user for typical projects (multi-instance projects may require use of the API, depending on whether ADP Professional or Ultimate solutions are being used).


A DHTML Popup can be designed by simply entering the appropriate content of the popup and selecting from the list of the possible combinations for the appearance and settings.


The windows that are created with Advanced DHTML Popup are unblockable by standard external window blocking software since they are complex DHTML elements that appear within a web page, not externally to the browser in a new browser window.


Cross Browser DHTML Popups

The script produced by Advanced DHTML Popup has evolved over years in sophistication, optimization and cross-browser support. The expertise that we have accumulated over this time in solving all the complex issues associated with high-quality DHTML creation is wide-ranging and deep.


Internet Explorer 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x
Firefox 1.x, 2.x, 3.x
Google Crome 1.x - 8.x
Safari 1.x - 5.x
Linux konqueror 3.x, 4.x
Opera 5.x - 11.x

Advanced DHTML Popup Features

 General purposes:

  • Full customization of the colors and setup. This can either be done at design time or manipulated at run time by simple add-on scriptlets (API). The colors are chosen either by hex entry or a color chart.
  • Full customization of the borders, padding, content and shadow of the DHTML Popup. Here also, the content in particular can be changed at run time to provide complex effects, slide-shows or multiple popups.
  • A range of Templates and Examples with ready made DHTML Popups. These, and the number available, are in constant expansion, providing ever more complex scenarios within the popup which can be easily taken advantage of.
  • Optional resize, move/drag (moveable from title and/or body), close as well as all other optional characteristics including border, shadow, title etc.
  • Various effects for the entry and exit of the DHTML Popup window - fade-in, fade-out, slide-in, slide-up, drop-down, etc., as well as more complex continuous scrolling and relative positioning effects such as combinations of entry methods like slide-in, fixing to a particular position in the browser and scrolling. Resizing the browser automatically updates the relative position of the popup.
  • Control the entry and exit of the DHTML Popup based on mouse-over, mouse-out, on-click events or automatic appearance with optional delay combined with any of the entry methods.
  • Extensive permanent and session Cookie control for the appearance of the DHTML Popup. This functionality goes far beyond simply using basic cookies, there are options for frequency of appearance and probability of appearance also.
  • Use ASP/PHP with Advanced DHTML Popup for dynamic pages and dynamic content. In this context we mean that the content of the popup may be generated using server-side ASP/PHP for example and then passed into the popup body, or the body could hold an iFrame (easily added as an option in the GUI), and then the content itself can contain ASP/PHP. In addition the linking lines can be a part of a server generated page.
  • Run-time dynamic updating of the content, size, position of the DHTML popup, as well as many other aspects easily controlled by add-on scriptlets using the API (for developers). Such effects can be multiplied and extended almost indefinitely to produce an extremely rich variety of effects.
  • In-content JavaScript can be embedded directly into the content as well as sourcing it from an external file. So for example an entire email sign-up/opt-in form validation script could be embedded directly, exactly as it would be if a normal external popup window was used.
  • Support of iFrames, applets, HTML objects such as flash objects, external websites etc. For example, an entire website can be embedded in the content using an iFrame (easily added in from the GUI options), or a flash movie can be directly entered into the content.
  • Flash websites supported both in the case of a DHTML popup or hover ad appearing on top of the flash or in the case of it being called from within the flash script itself.
  • Tooltip functionality for creating tootips and 'help' notices. These are mouse-over/mouse-out tooltips which may fade-in/out or not optionally and be used over many different elements or keywords in the page content.
  • Transparency effects, such as transparent png images, transparent gifs etc. In addition the background and or title of the DHTML popup or hover ad may be set to transparent.
  • Auto-scrolling (in x and y), centering (in x and y) options. A wide variety of options is available with auto-resizing and relative positioning (adjusting as the browser window is resized).
  • Time controlled popups with opening and closing optional delays, combined with all other methods for appearance.
  • View all changes as they are made in a preview window . This preview window is auto-updating so that any change made to the settings is immediately visible.
  • Ability to use the DHTML Popups in websites with frames
  • Full documentation and an ever-growing knowledgebase, as well as context help available immediately in the GUI.
  • Optimized DHTML popups for maximum loading speed (minimal loading times and bandwidth). Also, a choice of how the code is parsed by the browser relative to the page for optimizing the loading.
  • Support of multiple Document Types - whether a strict or transitional doctype is detected and adjustments made accordingly.
  • Support for all major authoring tools. Any authoring tool can be used to create the content and then this can be copied directly into the application.
  • Image path customization. Both the close/resize images as well as the script paths in the page may be changed to accommodate any desired path to a folder on your server.
  • Extensibility and advanced control through easy scripting additions (developers). There are examples and downloadable demos in the knowledgebase where the API is used. The possibilities for control are generally limited only by the imagination of the user, in particular combinations of such methods can lead to highly varied and rich implementations.
  • Dynamic content, positioning and sizing functions. These are standard and available as a part of the compiled output optionally for use by the user who wishes to manipulate these aspects through simple function calls in the page (or in fact in the content).
  • Dynamic manipulation of parts of the HTML content through simple scripting methods. A special example of a scriptlet which may be used to update only one or more elements of the content. This is analogous to using ASP/PHP (see above) to dynamically generate the content.
  • Multiple popups (sequential or simultaneous) in one page with dynamic updating functions. The possibilities here are endless, sequential popups means that only one call is made to the library but that on each appearance the dynamic functions are used to change it in some way. Simultaneous means that multiple calls with different UIS's (unique id's) are made to the library and these are manipulated independently.
  • FTP upload of all files required by the project (Ultimate only)
  • Add / remove files to and from the project (Ultimate only)
  • Tabbed environment for multiple simultaneous instances automatically generating the required API code (Ultimate only)
  • Automated multiple sequential (such as image thumbnail link lists) instances (Ultimate only)
  • Ability to edit external project files within application (such as iframe'd content) (Ultimate only)
  • Much more...