Lightbox

Simple lightbox script without dependencies (not even jQuery).

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Installation

Simple include lightbox.css and lightbox.js to your page.

Usage

Initialize the script by running lightbox(".lightbox");. The first argument is a selector to a tags containing img tags. The HTML code may look like this:

<a href="img/image-1.jpg" class="lightbox" title="">
  <img src="img/thumb/image-1.jpg" alt="Thumbnail 1">
</a>

Options

You can pass an object with custom options as the second parameter.

lightbox(".lightbox", {
  // Options
});

The following options are available:

Property	Type	Default	Description
captions	bool	true	Display captions, if available.
captionsSelector	"self", "img"	"self"	Set the element where the caption is. Set it to "self" for the a tag itself
captionAttribute	string	"title"	Get the caption from given attribute.
nav	bool, "auto"	"auto"	Display navigation buttons. "auto" hides buttons on touch-enabled devices.
navText	string	["‹", "›"]	Text or HTML for the navigation buttons.
close	bool	true	Display close button.
closeText	string	"×"	Text or HTML for the close button.
counter	bool	true	Display current image index
keyboard	bool	true	Allow keyboard navigation.
zoom	bool	true	Display zoom icon.
zoomText	string	"+"	Text or HTML for the zoom icon
docClose	bool	false	Closes the lightbox when clicking outside
swipeClose	bool	true	Swipe up to close lightbox
scroll	bool	false	Hide scrollbars if lightbox is displayed.

Supported browsers

• IE 10+
• Chrome
• Firefox
• Opera
• Safari

To-do list

• Group images

Notes

Feel free to report any issues. Contributions are always welcome!