jquery-lightbox
by Leandro Vieira Pinho

jQuery lightBox plugin is simple, elegant, unobtrusive, no need extra markup and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery's selector.

lightBox is a plugin for jQuery. It was inspired in Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar.

Dependencies

jquery (tested on 1.2.3 – 1.6.2)

Install

Copy jquery.lightbox.min.js, jquery.lightbox.css and the images from the images folder to the proper locations of your project.

Use:

$(function() {
  var settings = {fixedNavigation:true};
  $('#gallery a').lightBox(settings);
});

Example

Click here to view examples.

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/br/

Author

Leandro Vieira Pinho - http://leandrovieira.com (2015.08: host is down) (original project page) (2015.08: host is down)

Contributors

Ivaylo Stamatov (http://avioli.name)

Other clones

Here I'll list alternative locations, that I've stubmled upon, of other clones of the original.

• Rodolphe Franceschi: http://projects.exvoto.org/jquery-lightboxclone/website/
• Volker Herrmann: http://dercobold.de/jLightbox/
• Mark Nyon: https://github.com/trystant/jquery-lightbox

If anyone in the above list doesn't want them linked here, please open an issue and I'll get you off the list.

Changelog

2015.08

• Add other clones list.

2014.05

• Add example how to use multiple groups on a single page, simultaneously.

2011.08

• Added rel="lightbox[groupName]" tag to group images
• Added shrinkToFit setting to shrink images to fit the viewport.

Download

You can download this project in either zip or tar formats.

You can also clone the project with Git by running:

$ git clone git://github.com/avioli/jquery-lightbox