Opening a popbox when clicking a button

The PopBox plugin is useful for having a text area pop up in its own window when you click within a text area. However, I want a PopBox to appear when the user clicks a button, rather than within a text area. Is there a way to modify the PopBox functionality for this?

tl;dr: I want the Po开发者_开发百科pBox to pop when a function is called rather than when clicking inside a text area

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If you look at the popBox source, you'll see that when popBox is applied to an element (via $('#yourElement')).popBox(), there is a focus event bound to it:

obj.focus(function () { $(this).next(".popBox-holder").show(); var
    popBoxContainer = $(this).next().next(".popBox-container");  
    // ...edited for brevity...
});

Attach a click event to your button and, within that, trigger the popBox by triggering the above mentioned focus event:

// Attach a click event handler to your button
$('#yourButton').click(function(){
    // Trigger the "focus" event on the popBox element
    $('#yourElement').triggerHandler('focus');
});

See a working demo here

Obviously, you can modify this to fit your needs - e.g. hiding the initial textarea or input if you don't want it displayed.