Good jquery tutorial
http://www.tutorialsteacher.com/jquery/jquery-dom-manipulation
index.html
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Main Pagetitle>
<link rel='stylesheet' href='http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery.colorbox/1.4.33/example1/colorbox.css'>
head>
<body>
<h1>Main Page!h1>
<p>Popup opens after 1 secondp>
<script src="http://fredgolfrange.com/colorbox/jquery.min.js">script>
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery.colorbox/1.4.33/jquery.colorbox.js">script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function () {
if (document.cookie.indexOf('signupnewsletters=true') == -1) {
var nintyDay = 90000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 1;
var expires = new Date((new Date()).valueOf() + nintyDay);
document.cookie = "signupnewsletters=true;expires=" + expires.toUTCString();
setTimeout(openColorBox, 1000);
}
function openColorBox() {
$.colorbox({
innerWidth:500,
innerHeight:300,
iframe:true,
href: "subscribe.html",
overlayClose:false,
onLoad: function() {
// $('#cboxClose').remove();
}
});
}
});
script>
body>
html>
subscribe.html (the form):
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Subscribetitle>
<link href="http://fredgolfrange.com/newsletterhome/mailinglist.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
head>
<body class="oneColFixCtr">
<div id="container">
<h1>My Signup Formh1>
<form name="Mail_list" action="save.php" method="post">
<p>
<label for="first_name">First Name: label>
<input type="text" name="first_name" id="first_name" size="25" autofocus required />
p>
<p>
<label for="last_name">Last Name: label>
<input type="text" name="last_name" id="last_name" size="25" required />
p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit Form">
<input type="reset" value="Reset Form">
form>
div>
body>
html>
save.php
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Successtitle>
head>
<body>
<p>You submitted: p>
?>
<script>setTimeout(function(){ window.parent.jQuery.colorbox.close(); }, 1000);script>
body>
html>
original post is below link
http://community.sitepoint.com/t/need-a-simple-popup-modal-on-page-load-with-time-delay-fast-clean/36860/19