“Here’s my jQuery lightbox clone, I did it because those available are either not close enough to the real lightbox (lacking animations, not supporting galleries, etc ,etc) or were just not suiting my need.”
-Stéphane Caron

I couldn’t tell you how many lightboxes I’ve used over the last few years. This specific lightbox was designed as a plugin for the jQuery library. It works perfectly, and more importantly, requires no additional markup to your document. You only need to call it from your Javascript file. You’ll have zero problems!

ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads.

Supports every media type around, super compatible, and a huge host of options and features to use – no wonder it’s billed as the ultimate light-’whatever’.

Galleria is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.