Create a Modal window in Elxis 5.x

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This is how you can create modal windows in Elxis 5.x The contents of the window can be anything, a form, a text, or you can load them dynamically via AJAX.

Initialize HTML helper:
$htmlHelper = $elxis->obj('html');

Start modal window:
echo $htmlHelper->startModalWindow('Title here', 'uniquesuffix');

Put anything inside the modal window:
echo '<p>Anything!</p>';

Close the modal window:
echo $htmlHelper->endModalWindow();

That's it!

But how we invoke/display the modal window?
It's very simple. We do so with the elx5ModalOpen javascript function with the modal's suffix as input parameter. Example:
<a href="javascript:void(null);" onclick="elx5ModalOpen('uniquesuffix');">Open modal</a>