jQuery Lightbox

Posted on September 17th, 2007 |

Note: jQuery Lightbox is now being managed as a “Google Code” project, where anyone can make changes. You can view the project here: http://code.google.com/p/jquery-lightbox

Example 1: Single Image

Example Two: Series

How to Use:

Part 1 - Setup

jQuery lightbox v0.4 uses the jQuery Library. You will need to include these two Javascript files in your header.

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script><script type=”text/javascript” src=”lightbox.js”></script>

Include the Lightbox CSS file (or append your active stylesheet with the Lightbox styles).
```
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
```
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

Add a rel="lightbox" attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox. For example:
```
<a href="images/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="my caption">image #1</a>
```
Optional: Use the title attribute if you want to show a caption.
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. For example:
```
<a href="images/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #1</a><a href=”images/image-2.jpg” rel=”lightbox[roadtrip]”>image #2</a><a href=”images/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!

You can download it here…
jquery-lightbox-0.5.zip

Cheers!