javascript html popup window

Question

I am fairly a beginner with javascript. What I want to do is when I click on a button:

I want it to popup a window. The content of this window is HTML (actually it's a .php) code. As follows:

Then when you click next it scrolls to the next list of movies. What is the easiest javascript/jQuery library to do this?

This snippet of pitcure is taken from the website getglue. I tried to firebug the site, but can't seem to find the js code to do it.

IMPORTANT: The movie title and image is taken from a database, and therefore content is not static html. This is where I actually got confused on how to do a dynamic content generated window popup box

Answer 1

This is a fabulous tutorial on popups with jQuery (the only way to code js)

http://yensdesign.com/2008/09/how-to-create-a-stunning-and-smooth-popup-using-jquery/

A tutorial for AJAX

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/5-ways-to-make-ajax-calls-with-jquery/