title: jQuery UI overlay without dialog
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3782944/jquery-ui-how-to-use-ui-widget-overlay-by-itself">jQuery UI: How to use ui-widget-overlay by itself?</a>  </p>
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  <p>I want to avoid the user to change the screen during ajax calls. So I was thinking to use jQuery UI overlay (the overlay of the modal dialogs) but without any dialog. I couldn't find any way to do this.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Is there any way to show a modal without a dialog?</strong></p>