Modal dialog boxes/windows can be used in any type of project from your personal website to e-commerce website or to just spice up user interface of your web app. These can significantly improve user experience. Designers seem to like using modal windows more and more, as they provide a quick way to show data without reloading the entire page. Here are 15 great jQuery plugins that will handle modal windows for you. Enjoy !

Replete

User-friendly, fully customizable, responsive jQuery popup modal to take any HTML content, including images, videos, SVG icons,forms and display it in a clean organised and responsive popup. It is easy, flexible, powerful to create professional looking popup modal. This plugin features plenty of layouts, CSS transitions, SVG Icons, and animations.

Slick

This is a great way to display your message. You can insert any code or layout inside it, let it be banners, newsletter signups, contact forms, special offer display, images, galleries, iframe, video, maps and more effectively and with style.

Remodal

Responsive, lightweight, fast, synchronized with CSS animations, fully customizable modal window plugin with declarative configuration and hash tracking.

Reveal

Reveal is awesome because it’s easy to implement, is cross-browser compatible with modern browsers (with some graceful degradation of course) and lightweight coming in at only 1.75KB. What that means for you is that it’s fast, sexy and just works.

leanModal

JQuery modal plugin that works with your CSS.

jQuery modal

A simple & lightweight method of displaying modal windows with jQuery.

Speedo Popup

Speedo popup is a small, powerful and real customizable jQuery popup / modal plugin. You can play videos, you can make a lightbox of videos and or mixed content or you can notify the user when you want, you have the possibility to do whatever you want. This jQuery popup plugin has full compatibility for HTML5 and full fallback for older browsers.

iLightBox

It allows you to easily create the most beautiful responsive overlay windows using the jQuery JavaScript library.

Bootstrap

Bootstrap – jQuery plugin modal fx.

NyroModal

This is a simple jQuery plugin that implements a complex modal window system. The modals are able to load content such as inline HTML, AJAX calls, iframes with external links, images, gallery sets, external Flash and much more.

Avgrund Modal

Avgrund is a jQuery plugin for modal boxes and popups. It uses interesting concept showing depth between popup and page. It works in all modern browsers and gracefully degrade in those that do not support CSS transitions and transformations (e.g. in IE 6-9 has standard behavior).

Catch404 – A jQuery And CSS3 Modal Plugin For Handling Broken Links Elegantly.

Broken links and 404 Errors are a problem that have plagued almost all websites since the dawn of the internet – they’re just a really bad user experience and we’ve all encountered them.

PIROBOX

jQuery plugin that builds image galleries and slideshows, and presents them using modal windows.

SimpleModal

SIMPLEMODAL is a small plugin to create modal windows. It can be used to generate alert or confirm messages with few lines of code. Confirm configuration involves the use of callbacks to be applied to affirmative action; it can work in asynchronous mode and retrieve content from external pages or getting the inline content.

Fallr

Fallr is a general modal box message window with clean UI to present a notification or whatever dialog you want, in a simple and elegant way.