Cost: Free, links back
Found Via: http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/
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!
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It’s not bad
I have always preferred MultiBox, by phat phusion: http://www.phatfusion.net/
You should learn to develop a ligtbox from scratch, it would be very interesting.
…and I prefer shadowbox. it’s jQuery comtpatible and loads not only inline elements.
you should definitely offer a lightbox from scratch tutorial. that would be awesome.
I evaluated quite a lot of lightbox clones for jQuery and I found prettyPhoto to be the best ( http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyPhoto/ ).. it looks great, centres vertically properly and supports multiple galleries per page
Sounds simple enough, thanks for sharing.
Phatfusion’s Multibox looks very interesting, and it supports lots of different elements (flash, videos, iframes etc). I only wish it was a jQuery plugin, rather than mootools
Looks nice! But it isn’t possible with this lightbox to overlay div’s or html on your page, or am I wrong with that?
@ Ben Griffiths; MultiBox looks really great, is it possible to use that with jQuery instead of Mootools?
Firstly, thanks for posting. I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but I feel that the ubiquity of Lightboxes has rather spoilt their appeal.
@ Ben Griffiths .. MultiBox is good but its moo tools. If you wanted to stick with jQuery check out FancyBox .. http://fancy.klade.lv/
-JO
I’ve found shadowbox to be the way to go on this too. No borders or other design elements, just sexy pictures.
plugins are nice, but knowing how to build from scratch rocks!
thanks for the post, I myself have never actually like light boxes at all, but maybe that is just me
Fancybox does look good too
For all those who mentioned that MultiBox uses mootools – thats not so much a big issue, as you can use both mootools and jQuery on a single document at the same time. Of course that will increase load times for slow visitors as there’s two libraries to load.
Personally, I’d love to see it ported to jQuery though
isn’t there’s thickbox?
http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/
Another great gallery there.
ooh been looking for something like this!
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can i load jquery light box from Flash?
i’m wondering this too. anyone know how to do this?
Good alternative for Thickbox, thanks.
wish it was in jquery library too but …
QUESTION:
I have a client request for a light/thick/fancy box type of effect – but he wants thumbnails of the images within the box. I’m trying to advise against it – but was wondering if anyone knows of such a thing already out there?
thanks
I’m new to this. Is there a way to keep the next and prev buttons visible at all times?
some of them have a simple true false statement to switch the next prev nav on
This is really very good… Thanks