Thread:452/@comment-11733175-20140526224232/@comment-452-20140526231332

While the preview is loading, the close button is disabled. It becomes enabled once the preview loads.

If the server doesn't respond, for whatever reason, the close button remains disabled. (I usually just open the inspector and delete the modal)

So, on a fast internet connection, when nothing goes wrong, there's no issue. But I believe that gracefully handling when things go wrong is important.

You can trigger this by disabling your internet connection, then pressing preview.

Common scenarios where this may naturally occur:
 * Being disconnected from the internet while composing a post.
 * Using a slow connection, such as in a regional area, or a public/shared wifi hotspot.
 * Maxing out bandwidth on any connection.
 * A server outage (which happened a few hours ago, and is why I added the style today - I already applied the fix to the wiki I usually edit.)

The problem is caused due to the .wikiaThrobber div completely covering the modal, (z-index of the div is 2.)

The easiest way to fix it is probably just to do exactly what I did. While it makes sense for the publish button to be unavailable until loaded, there's no reason to not allow the close button.

The new image lightbox has the same issue, which I first reported in March 2013 - I didn't report it sooner because I assumed that since it was new, the image lightbox was still being developed, but there doesn't appear to have been any updates since then. :(