# Formsnap in a lightbox?

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/formsnap-in-a-lightbox/46215>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [February 9, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/formsnap-in-a-lightbox/46215 "2025-02-09T22:54:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![manofdogz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/manofdogz/32/26314_2.png) [@manofdogz](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/manofdogz)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/formsnap-in-a-lightbox/46215/1 "2025-02-09T22:54:04Z")

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I have put a FormSnap 4 form into a Limelight Lightbox, but it understandably covers the on-screen message when the form is submitted.

Hence, when in a lightbox, it appears as if nothing is happening once the form is submitted. Making the lightbox transparent doesn’t really help as the form fields also cover the message.

I then created success and failure pages which the form diverts to, but as this takes around 10 seconds it could really do with some pre-loader animation or message. Any suggested workarounds appreciated.

@yabdab

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**Author:** ![Heroic\_Nonsense](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/heroic_nonsense/32/20666_2.png) [@Heroic\_Nonsense](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Heroic_Nonsense)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/formsnap-in-a-lightbox/46215/2 "2025-02-10T06:30:56Z")

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Hi @manofdogz,

If the Formloom success and failure message boxes are targetable using CSS (they usually are, but I don’t have Formloom so I can’t check the class names for you), you should be able to target them and give them a higher priority on the Z-axis.

This way, the box will overlap the lightbox and be visible to the visitor.

Cheers,  
Erwin

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**Author:** ![manofdogz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/manofdogz/32/26314_2.png) [@manofdogz](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/manofdogz)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 10:35am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/formsnap-in-a-lightbox/46215/3 "2025-02-10T10:35:41Z")

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Thanks for this - Just to clarify it’s formsnap not formloom. I was hoping this would be the case. Hopefuly Yabdab will have a solution.

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**Author:** ![Heroic\_Nonsense](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/heroic_nonsense/32/20666_2.png) [@Heroic\_Nonsense](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Heroic_Nonsense)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/formsnap-in-a-lightbox/46215/4 "2025-02-10T10:37:01Z")

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Whoops, meant to type FormSnap!

For anyone else reading this: the solution would work for Formloom too. 😉