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jQuery LightBox

Posted by Shinuraj Articles | JQuery February 11, 2011
We will see here JQuery Lightbox.
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Here is one simple lightbox using jQuery that I have used in one of my application.

How to Use:

Part 1 - Setup

  1. jQuery lightbox uses the jQuery Library. You will need to include these two Javascript files in your header.
  2. <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
  3. <script type="text/javascript" src="lightbox.js"></script>
  4. Include the Lightbox CSS file (or append your active stylesheet with the Lightbox styles).
  5. <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
  6. Check the CSS and make sure the referenced prevlabel.gif and nextlabel.gif files are in the right location. Also, make sure the loading.gif and closelabel.gif files as referenced near the top of the lightbox.js file are in the right location.

Part 2 - Activate

  1. Add a class="lightbox" attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox. For example:
  2. <a href="images/image-1.jpg" class="lightbox" title="my caption">image #1</a>
    Optional: Use the title attribute if you want to show a caption.
  3.  If you have a set of related images that you would like to group, follow step one but additionally include a group name in the rel attribute. For example:
  4. <a href="images/image-1.jpg" class="lightbox" rel="roadtrip">image #1</a>
  5. <a href="images/image-2.jpg" class="lightbox" rel="roadtrip">image #2</a>
  6. <a href="images/image-3.jpg" class="lightbox" rel="roadtrip">image #3</a>

    No limits to the number of image sets per page or how many images are allowed in each set.

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Hi Mahesh, Lightbox is a jQuery application used to display large images using modal dialogs. On a Lightbox-enabled page, a user can click an image to have it magnified in a Lightbox window, which resizes itself according to the size of the image using a gliding animation. Lightbox determines which images will be shown in the modal window through the XHTML "rel" attribute, which is used on an <a> element wrapped around the <img> element. Lightbox also provides a way to attach captions to images and to run a slide show, which can be navigated using the arrow keys. Hope this helps!! -shinu

Posted by Shinuraj Feb 12, 2011

It will be nice if you can explain where we can use the lightbox and what it looks like? Thanks!

Posted by Mahesh Chand Feb 11, 2011
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