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Webflow Modals & Popups Suppression

Automatically suppress your Webflow modals, popups & more after the user closes them for a specified number of days.

This feature enables you to easily "close" and suppress UI elements so that they will not appear for a specified number of days, even on page reload.

It's primarily used for;

  • Alert banners

  • Notices

  • Modals & pop-ups

But can be used for any elements that you want to suppress.

Demonstration

Use Cases

  • Suppress an interactions-based modal popup

  • Suppress a CTA or other banner

Usage Notes

This library simplifies modal design into two parts-

  1. The modal element itself, which can be any popup, DIV, or other element

  2. Close button element(s). These must be positioned within the modal element as descendants.

To implement this, build your modals or CTAs however you like.

The close functionality will be an element with a special custom attribute on it. When closed, SA5 will remove the element from the DOM, and suppress it for as long as you've requested.

In Webflow, modals are commonly "closed" using an interaction. It may include fade-out, slide-out, or spin-off-screen effects. SA5 simply deletes the element outright, so those exit animations would not be seen, the modal will simply disappear.

Add the SA5 Library

First, add the library as detailed in Quick Start.

I want this element to represent my suppressible content

To the outermost element you want to suppress;

  • Add a custom attribute of wfu-modal = ( name ). Give it any custom name you like. That name will be used in the suppression tracking so you can e.g. have the same modal on every page, and suppress it site-wide.

  • Add a custom attribute of wfu-modal-trigger = load.

  • Add the suppression duration you want, using wfu-modal-suppress-days = ( days ). If unspecified, defaults to about 1 year.

I want this element to be the close button

To the close element(s) within the modal;

  • Add an attribute of wfu-modal-close = true

  • Add an attribute of wfu-modal-close-type = auto

# Considering

wfu-modal-action = open | close

wfu-modal-action-method = auto | interaction

wfu-modal-action-trigger = click | timer | scroll | exit

wfu-modal-action-trigger-ms = 10000

Questions? Feature Requests?

Visit the SA5 forum link at the top of this page.

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