Add a truly modal dialog box to your web application

If you do a search on "JavaScript Modal Dialog", you'll get a lot of hits and a variety of solutions … but most of them tend to forget that the browser users can use the keyboard keys as well as the mouse to navigate around the web page. The solution I'm describing in my new InformIT article Building Modal Dialogs into Your Web Application addresses both input devices, giving you a truly modal dialog box that captures all key- and mouse clicks.