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jQuery ColorBox

A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3 through 1.6

Why you should be using ColorBox

  • Supports photos, grouping, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content.
  • Lightweight: 10KB of JavaScript.
  • Appearance is controlled through CSS so users can restyle the box.
  • Behavior settings can be over-written without altering the ColorBox javascript file.
  • Can be extended with callbacks & event-hooks without altering the source files.
  • Completely unobtrusive, options are set in the JS and require no changes to existing HTML.
  • Preloads background images and can preload upcoming images in a photo group.
  • Written in jQuery plugin format and can be chained with other jQuery commands.
  • Generates W3C valid XHTML and adds no JS global variables & passes JSLint.
  • Released under the MIT License.

Tested In: Firefox 3+, Safari 4+, Chrome, Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, Opera 11.