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lokesh/lightbox2

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6,375 stars·1,726 forks·JavaScript·MIT·11 viewslokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2↗

Lightbox2

Lightbox2 is a client-side JavaScript image lightbox designed to display images in a modal overlay window on top of current web page content. It functions as a modal image viewer that zooms images into a centered overlay with a darkened background, preventing navigation away from the original page.

The project implements image gallery overlays for web image presentation, creating a focused viewing experience for photographs or graphics by dimming the rest of the website.

The system handles image presentation through event-driven modal triggering and dynamic HTML injection. It utilizes attribute-based configuration to calculate layouts and uses CSS-driven transitions for fade-in and fade-out effects.

Features

  • Image Lightboxes - Provides a complete image lightbox implementation including scaling, fitting logic, and an overlay viewing experience.
  • Image Overlays - Provides components for layering focused image views as modal overlays on top of page content.
  • Link-Intercepting Modal Triggers - Intercepts link clicks to prevent page navigation and instead launch the interactive image viewer.
  • Focused Media Presentation - Creates a focused viewing experience for images through an overlay that dims the rest of the website.
  • Animated Gallery Modals - Implements a gallery system where selected images open in an animated modal overlay window for detailed viewing.
  • Image Galleries - Provides a JavaScript-based system to organize and display images via a modal overlay gallery.
  • Image Viewers - Provides a lightweight modal interface for displaying and interacting with images without leaving the current page.
  • Modal Container Overlays - Creates a full-screen modal container that layers images above the existing page content to maintain user context.
  • Image Dimension Calculators - Automatically calculates the natural pixel dimensions of images to ensure the viewer is correctly centered in the browser window.
  • Overlay Transition Animations - Provides fade-in and fade-out visual animations for the modal container and background overlay using CSS transitions.
  • Dynamic Markup Injection - Dynamically generates and inserts the lightbox HTML markup into the document body only when an image is triggered.
  • Modals and Popups - Image overlay and lightbox viewer.

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Frequently asked questions

What does lokesh/lightbox2 do?

Lightbox2 is a client-side JavaScript image lightbox designed to display images in a modal overlay window on top of current web page content. It functions as a modal image viewer that zooms images into a centered overlay with a darkened background, preventing navigation away from the original page.

What are the main features of lokesh/lightbox2?

The main features of lokesh/lightbox2 are: Image Lightboxes, Image Overlays, Link-Intercepting Modal Triggers, Focused Media Presentation, Animated Gallery Modals, Image Galleries, Image Viewers, Modal Container Overlays.

Which projects share features with lokesh/lightbox2?

Projects with overlapping indexed features include: dimsemenov/magnific-popup — Magnific-Popup is a JavaScript lightbox library and frontend UI component used to display images, videos, and remote… fat/zoom.js — zoom.js is a jQuery image zoom plugin and frontend image viewer designed to manage image expansion and high-resolution… jackmoore/colorbox — Colorbox is a jQuery-based lightbox plugin and modal overlay library used to display images, HTML, and external… layui/layer — This project is a JavaScript UI component library and frontend utility toolkit. It serves as a web modal framework and… necolas/react-native-web — This project is a cross-platform user interface framework that maps mobile-native component primitives to standard web… blueimp/gallery — Gallery is a JavaScript library for creating responsive media galleries. It provides touch-enabled lightbox views and…