Lightboxes as they are implemented right now lack the ability to remove the Overlay.
It would be a handy addition to be able to remove the overlay and keep the rest of the page interactive.
One use case would be a Notification Widget on each page that you can call programmatically.
Lightboxes do not lack the ability to remove the overlay.
You can either remove or design the overlay to your liking.
It is the page background property if I remember correctly.
Yes, you can make the background transparent, but it is still there, thus you can’t interact with the res of the page.
lightbox is a popup window, which is separate from the page window.
if you want to interact with the page, consider using a container?
Yes, this would be one option.
But if you want to be able to have an identical notification system throughout the site, you need to add a container to every page.
Furthermore, light boxes come with some nice functionalities which would be perfect to use as notifications.
How would you go about creating something similar?
Container on each page?
What if you change the styling of the container, do you need to do this on every page?
Well, a lightbox will be perfect for that unless as you say, you need to keep interacting wit the surrounding page.
A Container can work, if it fits your needs well enough, while receiving it’s design from a data collection’s rich content field perhaps.
Or a third option currently available would be to create a custom element.
Yes, I will test this out, if I can achieve what I want with containers or custom elements.
Still, having this little added to the lightbox would make it more versatile.
Yeah agree with the lightbox addition.
With custom element you can achieve pretty much anything you want.