Best jQuery Status Message Plugin?

Question

What is the best jQuery status message plugin?

I like jGrowl and Purr, but jGrowl doesn't have the feature to remain sticky (not close automatially) and Purr doesn't seem to work right in IE 6.

I would like to show messages like... the site is about to go down for maintenance, your such and such job has completed, and stuff like that.

Answer 1

A few options...

• Humanized Messages (demo, 3 KB) looks very cool, and has a nice history rollout
• Pines Notify (13 KB) is extremely customizable and supports jQuery UI themes
• jGrowl (6 KB) does actually have a sticky option - use { sticky: true }

Answer 2

jGrowl does look to have sticky - see sample 2 in the demo page:

https://github.com/stanlemon/jGrowl

...ah - or did you mean after the page has reloaded?

I would then handle this on the server side - i.e. include a sitedown.js that triggers the growl notice each time any page is visited.