Note that this project is no longer maintained. In a number of recent projects, I’ve been needing to provide an overlay of sorts over an entire page or a number of elements on a page. Unfortunately, most options ship with extra weight – they include support for modal dialogs or some type of lightbox overlay all of which was overkill for what I needed. To that end, I ended up writing a lightweight
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