# Link\_to\_remote\_with\_overlay - Easy Ajax Overlays **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 14, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/link-to-remote-with-overlay-easy-ajax-overlays/57818 "2006-04-14T15:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@alex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/link-to-remote-with-overlay-easy-ajax-overlays/57818/1 "2006-04-14T15:11:50Z")
People might be intrested in an article I wrote about using a helper and some javascript to easily bring up ‘Overlays’, a bit like Lightbox. [http://www.eribium.org/eribium/?p=32](http://www.eribium.org/eribium/?p=32) ---
**Author:** ![alex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@alex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/link-to-remote-with-overlay-easy-ajax-overlays/57818/2 "2006-04-14T20:00:25Z")
Thank you - I was just thinking that I’d like to find a way to do this 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![alex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@alex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/link-to-remote-with-overlay-easy-ajax-overlays/57818/3 "2006-04-14T20:52:43Z")
Great stuff, really !! ---
**Author:** ![alex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@alex](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/alex)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/link-to-remote-with-overlay-easy-ajax-overlays/57818/4 "2006-04-14T20:59:04Z")
I also checked out your text-area resizer. But wouldn’t a drag-bar at the bottom be more intuitive for the user, instead of a slider ?