Title: [Plugin: ThickBox] Closing a Modal Window?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: ThickBox] Closing a Modal Window?

 *  [sparkweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sparkweb/)
 * (@sparkweb)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-thickbox-closing-a-modal-window/)
 * I’ve got a question and I can’t find the answer anywhere on the interwebs. Thickbox
   is working great for my popups. I’m using modal =true because I want to create
   my own close button. I also want to be able to close the modal window by click
   on the overlay (the gray background div). The close button works fine, but I 
   can’t get the overlay to accept any clicks. Here’s my code:
 *     ```
       $(".closebiopopup, #TB_overlay").bind("click", function(e) {
       tb_remove();
       return false;
       });
       ```
   
 * Any ideas about how to bind an event to the overlay?

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 * Last reply from: [sparkweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sparkweb/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-thickbox-closing-a-modal-window/)
 * Status: not resolved

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