Contact-Pop is a jQuery plugin that makes contact forms with grayed out overlays incredibly easy. The basic script grabs any links that point to your contact page and flags them for the Contact-Pop popup. When these links are clicked, Contact-Pop grays out the page and pulls in the contact form using AJAX. That means that with just a few lines of code, you can convert your site to use Contact-Pop's form and overlay rather than your current contact page.
While there are a lot of options for producing grayed out overlays in jQuery, Contact-Pop provides a more robust and specialized solution for in-page contact forms. The main advantage is ease of use: simply flag any links to your current contact page by href or jQuery selector, and ContactPop does the rest. Combining this simplicity with a plethora of customizable options, Contact-Pop is a useful plugin for newbies and seasoned developers alike.
Additionally, Contact-Pop has the benefit of being totally unobtrusive. Since the plugin replaces the normal contact links on your page, even if a user doesn't have Javascript enabled they will at least be routed to the normal contact page.
Finally, although Contact-Pop leverages a PHP file, this is just to make it easy to plug into your website. If you want, you can easily write a custom PHP, ASP or any other backend page to serve and process the form as leveraged by Contact-Pop's AJAX.
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