10 Best Modal Components In JavaScript & Pure CSS (2026 Update)
Modal windows are very useful in web applications,not only for user inputs like login or registration forms but also for feedback messages in some scenarios.
I’m not a big fan of popups, but sometimes they are necessary: such as when you need to alert users of important messages or attract their attention with a special offer. The fact is that there are plenty of useful and interesting components for creating simple or complex modal popups.
If you need a modal to overlay any web content (such as images, videos, text, ajax contents) on top of the web page, the following list will help you to find the best Modal Components available.
Answering questions “What are the best modal components for jQuery? for JavaScript? for web apps in general?” and picking just 10 of them was not an easy job.
Therefore, we did our research and ended up with a top list of JavaScript and CSS-based modal components that give you full control over popups or dialogs. I hope you like it.
Originally Published Nov 20 2017, updated Jan 30 2026
Table of contents:
jQuery Modal Plugins:
Advanced jQuery Modal, Lightbox & Slideshow Plugin - jAlert
A simple yet feature-rich jQuery plugin used to create fully configurable modals, dialogs, popups, lightboxes, alerts, slideshows (gallery lightboxes) with cool CSS3 animations.
Features:
- 12 Built-in Themes - Professional styling with light and dark variants
- Rich Media Support - Images, videos, iframes, and AJAX content
- Advanced Slideshows - Multi-image galleries with navigation controls
- Mobile Responsive - Touch gestures and adaptive sizing
- Keyboard Navigation - Full accessibility with ESC and arrow keys
- Flexible Configuration - Extensive options for customization
- Backward Compatible - Seamless upgrades from older versions
- Performance Optimized - Lightweight with no unnecessary dependencies
Create Dynamic Bootstrap 5/4 Modals In jQuery - bootstrap-show-modal.js
Yet another Bootstrap modal wrapper plugin which lets you create beautiful, responsive, dynamic alert/confirm dialog boxes and complex modal windows using Bootstrap 5 or Bootstrap 4 modal component.
Super Simple Modal Popups with jQuery and CSS3 Transitions
A jQuery/HTML5/CSS3 based modal script to create simple, responsive, animated, and reuseable modal popups on your website/application.
Easy HTML/Iframe Modal Plugin - jQuery modalWindow
A super tiny and easy-to-use jQuery modal plugin for displaying HTML & Iframe content in an animated popup window with ease.
Features:
- Auto sets the correct width and height according to the iframe content.
- Allows to auto dismiss the modal window after a specified timeout.
- Configurable in/out animations.
- Fully customizable via CSS.
Responsive & Accessible jQuery Modal Plugin - Popup Overlay
A responsive, mobile-friendly, accessible, highly configurable and cross-browser jQuery modal window solution.
Features:
- Popups a clean modal window with fullscreen overlay.
- Responsive design that adapts to any screen size and orientation.
- Highly configurable with lots of built-in options, methods and callback events.
- Works with all the modern browsers and IE7/8/9.
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) supported.
- Also can be used as a tooltip plugin that the tooltip content will be positioned relative to the opening link.
- Easy to implement on your web page/app with one js call.
Vanilla JS Modal Components:
Simple Modal Window With Background Blur Effect
A simple, lightweight vanilla JavaScript library that lets you create a modal window while blurring the background content to focus your user’s attention on modal content.
All-in-One Modal Lightbox Solution For Web Developers – DimBox.js
Just another Pure CSS overlay modal solution without any JS and checkbox & label tricks. Click on the blank area of the background overlay to close the modal.
It supports a variety of content types, including images, galleries, HTML5/YouTube/Vimeo videos, iframe content, AJAX content, inline content, and much more.
Lightweight Customizable Modal and Alert Library – SilverBox.js
A tiny JavaScript library for creating highly customizable popups, notifications, prompts, confirm dialogs and modal windows without sacrificing performance or quality.
Modern Modal Window With Smooth Zoom Animations
A simple, animated, responsive modal window with smooth zoom animations using CSS3 transitions and transforms.
The parent of the modal box will be animated smoothly with CSS3 transitions and transforms. It’s a nice effect that can be used for collecting user information, for error messages, for login pages, or just about anything else.
Advanced Dialog & Modal Plugin For Bootstrap 5 – bs5dialog
A JavaScript plugin to create alert/confirm/prompt popups, loading indicators, toast notifications, and dialog windows using Bootstrap 5 styles.
Pure CSS Modal Components:
Minimal Overlay Modal In Pure CSS
modalcss is an ultra-light CSS solution to create a simple, responsive modal window with CSS3 animations. Based on pure CSS and plain html structure, without the need to write any checkbox or radio button tricks used in other pure CSS modal solutions.
Simple Responsive CSS-Only Modal Dialog
A simple, responsive modal dialog built using CSS and html checkbox.
Conclusion:
That was our list of the 10 Best Modal Components in JavaScript and CSS. There are many more than just ten out there but this list should be a helpful resource for you if you're in need of some modal popup inspiration for your next project.
We hope you enjoyed it and as always, let us know what you think! Are there any other cool Modal Components that you have come across? Let us know in the comments!
Looking for more jQuery plugins or JavaScript libraries to create awesome modal windows on the web & mobile? See jQuery Modal and JavaScript/CSS Modal sections for more details.
See Also:
- 10 Best Dialog Plugins To Replace The Native JS Popup Boxes
- 10 Best JavaScript Dialog Plugins To Create Advanced Popup Boxes
- 10 Best Video Lightbox Plugin In JavaScript
- 10 Best Lightbox Gallery Plugins In JavaScript & CSS
- 10 Best Gallery Lightbox Libraries In Pure JavaScript
- Best Modal/Popup/Dialog Components For Vue.js
- Best Modal Components For React & React Native Apps
