Lightbox2

by Lokesh Dhakar
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Lightbox is small javascript library used to overlay images on top of the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

Examples

Single images

thumb-1 thumb-1

An image set

Plants: image 1 0f 4 thumb Plants: image 2 0f 4 thumb Plants: image 3 0f 4 thumb Plants: image 4 0f 4 thumb

Download

Lightbox
v2.51

Lightbox2 is open-source.
View and fork the code on Github.

How to use

Part 1 - Setup

  1. Lightbox 2 uses the jQuery framework. Load jQuery and the Lightbox javascript files in the proper order. 
    <script src="js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="js/lightbox.js"></script>
  2. Include the Lightbox CSS file. 
    <link href="css/lightbox.css" rel="stylesheet" />
  3. Check the CSS and make sure the referenced prev.png and next.png files are in the right location. Also, make sure the loading.gif and close.png files as referenced near the top of the lightbox.js file are in the right location.

Part 2 - Activate

  1. Add a rel="lightbox" attribute to any link tag to activate Lightbox. 
    <a href="img/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="my caption">image #1</a>
    Optional: Use the title attribute if you want to show a caption.
  2. If you have a set of related images that you would like to group, follow step one but additionally include a group name between square brackets in the rel attribute. 
    <a href="img/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #1</a>
<a href="img/image-2.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #2</a>
<a href="img/image-3.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #3</a>
    No limits to the number of image sets per page or how many images are allowed in each set. Go nuts!

Have questions?

For personal support issues and feature requests please post a message in the forums. I do not have time to personally respond to support emails, please use the forum. Thanks!

For bug reports, send a note with the browser you are using and the version of Lightbox to lokesh.dhakar@[ google's email service ].com.