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 at a glance

• Display images, videos, HTML, Iframes, Ajax requests and SWF
• Supports YouTube, Vimeo, MP4 (h.264), WebM and FLV movies
• Group lightboxes and mix different content types
• Responsive design to fit images great on mobile devices
• Load other widgets in lightbox
• 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 and WordPress

Examples

Different animations - fade, elastic and none

<a data-lightbox="transitionIn:fade; transitionOut:fade;" href="/images/demo/sample_big.jpg"><img class="pic3d" src="/images/demo/sample.jpg" border="0" alt="fade" width="250" height="165" /></a>

Different title positions- float and over

<a data-lightbox="transitionIn:elastic; transitionOut:elastic; titlePosition:float;" href="/images/demo/sample_big.jpg" title="Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry"><img class="pic3d" src="/images/demo/sample.jpg" border="0" alt="fade" width="250" height="165" /></a>

You can use it in a gallery

<a data-lightbox="transitionIn:elastic; transitionOut:elastic; titlePosition:float; group:gallery1" href="/images/demo/sample_big.jpg" title="Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry"><img class="pic3d" src="/images/demo/sample.jpg" border="0" alt="fade" width="250" height="165" /></a>

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

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• MP4 (h.264)
• Swf
• Inline
• Iframe

Load Widgets In A Lightbox

Use #wk-ID to load widgets like slideshows or galleries in a lightbox. For example: Widgetkit Slideshow

<a data-lightbox="width:945;height:637;" href="#wk-2">Lightbox</a>

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:600;" href="http://www.wikipedia.org">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
• scrolling - Set to yes or no
• width - Set a width in pixel
• height - Set a height in pixel
• padding - Set a padding in pixel