Lightbox

The Widgetkit Lightbox allows you to view images, HTML and multi-media content on a dark dimmed overlay without having to leave the current page.

Features

• Display images, HTML, Iframes, Ajax requests, YouTube, Vimeo and SWF movies
• Group lightboxes and mix different content types
• 3 different opening and closing transitions
• 4 different caption styles
• Keyboard and mouse scroll wheel navigation
• Build on the latest jQuery version
• Works with Joomla 1.5, 1.6, WordPress and Stand-alone

Examples

Different animations – fade, elastic and none

Different title positions – float, inside and over

Various examples in one gallery (try also using the keyboard and mouse scroll wheel)

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Swf
• Inline
• Iframe

How To Use

Use the HTML5 custom data attribute data-lightbox to activate the lightbox. You can set various lightbox parameters to the data attribute. For example:

<a data-lightbox="width:1000;height:700;" href="http://www.google.com">Lightbox</a>

Here is a list of the most common parameters:

• titlePosition – How should the title show up? (float, outside, inside or over)
• transitionIn – Set a opening transition. (fade, elastic, or none)
• transitionOut – Set a closing transition (fade, elastic, or none)
• overlayShow – Set to true or false
• width – Set a width in pixel
• height – Set a height in pixel
• padding – Set a padding in pixel