How to make div hide and show as like popup window?

Question

I am new to jQuery. I am trying to create a search box functionality in my project. I have created a div which contains names of cities, and I want it to be displayed on the click event of a button. I am able to hide and show that div using slideToggle() method of jQuery on the click event of a button. But when div is displayed, then other contents of my page gets distracted. I do not expect this behavior.

Here is my image before displaying that div:

and the following is an image of the page after div is displayed:

Now I want this div to be displayed as like popup, so that it won't distract other contents of the page.

Following is a code of my search box section in HTML:

        <!--start SearchBox section-->
        <section id="searchbox"style="background:white">
            <div class="container" style="margin-top:0px;">


              <div class="row">

                    <div class="col-lg-12">


               <form style="">
                    <center>
                            <div id="SearchBoxBorder" style="background:white;border:2px solid #a1a1a1;border-radius:5px;margin-top:20px;width:800px;">
                            <table id="mytable" >
                                    <td style="width:300px;background:white;">
                                       <center> <div class="form-group">
                                                <input type="text" class="form-control" id="exampleInputEmail1" placeholder="I am looking for"
                                                    style="border-width:5px;background:white; margin-top:17px; margin-left:15px; margin-right:10px;width:300px;
                                                    border-style:solid;border-width:5px;border-color:#a1a1a1;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;height:42px; font-size:18px;">
                                        </div></center>
                                     </td>

                                     <td style="width:50px ;text-align:right;background:white;"> <center><strong> in</strong></center>    </td>

                                     <td style="width:400px;background:white;">
                                     <center>
                                             <div class="input-group">
                                                   <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="in locality"
                                                    style="border-width:5px;background:white; margin-top:0px; margin-left:10px; margin-right:20px;width:;font-size:18px;
                                                    border-style:solid;border-width:5px;border-color:#a1a1a1;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;height:42px;">
                                                   <div class="input-group-btn">
                                                            <button type="button" class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle"  data-toggle="dropdown" id="dropdownBtn" 
                                                             style="background:white;border-top-width:5px;border-right-width:5px;border-bottom-width:5px;border-left-width:1px;
                                                             border-color:#a1a1a1;height:42px;border-radius:0px;text-align:center;color:black; margin-right:20px;">Select<span class="caret"></span></button>

                                                             <!--City dropdown -->
                                                                    <div class="SearchCities">
                                                                            <div id="outer" style="">



                                                                                        <div id="innerLeft" style="">
                                                                                            <h5 >North India:</h5>
                                                                                            <ul class="city" type="none";>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Delhi</a></li>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Agra</a></li>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Shrinagar</a></li>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Noida</a></li>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Himachal</a></li>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Patna</a></li>
                                                                                            </ul>

                                                                                        </div>

                                                                                        <div id="innerRight" style="">
                                                                                            <a class="close">&times;</a>
                                                                                            <h5>West India:</h5>
                                                                                            <ul class="city" type="none";>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Mumbai</a></li>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Pune</a></li>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Nashik</a></li>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Kolhapur</a></li>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Osmanabad</a></li>
                                                                                                    <li><a>Ahamdabad</a></li>
                                                                                            </ul>
                                                                                        </div>


                                                                            </div><!--/outer-->
                                                                        </div><!--/SearchCities-->


                                                             </div><!-- /btn-group -->
                                                   <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" style="margin-right:20px;"><i class="icon-search" style="font-size:20px"></i>  Search</button>
                                             </div><!-- /input-group -->
                                           </center>         
                                     </td>

                            </table>
                        </center>
                    </form>

    </div><!--/col-lg-12-->
</div><!--/row-->
    </div><!--/end of container-->
</section>
<!--End of SearchBox section-->

and following is my jQuery code:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $(".SearchCities").hide();
  $("#dropdownBtn").click(function(){
  $(".SearchCities").slideToggle();
  });
});

For more idea what I want to do visit :askme.com and see a search box at the top and click on rest of India. So please can you help me to achieve this? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Here you can do this easily

HTML

<div class="dialogbox"> This is Dialogue box</div>
<a id="click">click here</a>

CSS

.dialogbox{width:100px; height:100px; background:grey;display:none}

JQUERY

<script src="latest jquery library"></script>

    <script>

    $(document).ready(function(){
    $("#click").click(function(){

    $(".dialogbox").toggle();

    });

    });
   </script>