Everyone loves lightbox javascript effects, since the original Lightbox script there has been countless clones generated for all the popular Javascript libraries. This collection rounds up the top ten Lightbox scripts for jQuery in particular, so remember to keep it bookmarked for your next design project!
jQuery Lightbox Plugin
Supported Media: Images
Fancybox
Supported Media: Images, Inline HTML, iFrame
Shadowbox
Supported Media: Images, Inline HTML, iFrame, AJAX, Flash, Video
ThickBox
Supported Media: Images, Inline HTML, iFrame, AJAX
Slightly Thickerbox
Supported Media: Images, AJAX, Video
Fancy Zoom
Supported Media: Images, Inline HTML, Flash
Facebox
Supported Media: Images, Inline HTML, AJAX
nyroModal
Supported Media: Images, Inline HTML, iFrame, AJAX, Video
Interface Imagebox Demo
Supported Media: Images
piroBox
Supported Media: Images
Greybox Redux
Supported Media: Images, iFrame
prettyPhoto
Supported Media: Images
Nice list. Just what I was going to look for later in the week. Perfect post timing!
Thanks Chris!
before i was using mootools, now i moved to jquery and im using in my most of projects jquery lightbox, also add jquery popeye is also lightbox alternative and working really fine
http://herr-schuessler.de/blog/jquerypopeye-an-inline-lightbox-alternative/
hmm… what about colorbox?
Yes i agree, Colorbox its great
http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/
Thanks.
Yeah.
http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/
i ll also prefer colorbox
Thanks for sharing I collected at http://link2.abu-farhan.com/web-design/modal/index.html
wow, amazing post.
deliciousing this too ;)
jquery is the revolutions in the new age media.
If a site uses the jquery effectively then it is sure that the results will super cool.
Thanks for the warping all the examples in a single posts.
A good list. I’ll come here when I next need a lightbox. Save me nabbing the same one every time!
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wonderful jquery lightbox list! btw how do I know each of them browsers support level?
Out of all of these options does anyone version stand head and shoulders above the rest?
this one supports mp3, http://www.phatfusion.net/multibox/
This is a mootools lightbox
Dang
Great round-up but you might have wanted to include this.Not only is it a lightbox but you can have multiple images open plus you can drag them and move them around.
I love nyroModal
I really like the lightbox jquery plugin, that’s what i use on my site.
I like the piroBox, I have a client who is looking for something like this so thanks for the post!
Thank you Chris. Really helpful post…
Oh nice post. I don’t see SlimBox on here, it’s basically lightbox enhanced, meaning it will work on horizontal websites and fixes the scrolling issue with lightbox. Perhaps you could take a look at it you have to google the Jquery version btw.
There is a mistake for the fancybox, it can display ajax :
“Can display images, inline, ajax and iframed content”
Thank you for sharing!
this is coollllll………
Thank you !!! my favorite is facebox !!!!
thx !!!
thank you
fantastic list!! I do not know which I must begin with :b Tks!!
i the list is great ,but am having trouble making only specific anchor tag with specified rel attributes which will be the only ones to be able to activate the lightbox
Hi guys. I just to say WOww for ur scripts.
It’s brilliant and completely nice and cool.
I must try and tell my group to show this web. Thanks guys.Nice job
Wow, the best collections. Many thanks. Cheers.
Nice work. Thanks for sharing.
Now this is an actually useful resource chris, unlike many other ‘duplicate design inspiration’ blogs that keep popping up everyday with the same websites/designs i have seen before.
Fancybox worked for me.
Way cool. Thanks! G.
And even mooooooore lightboxes.
I’m sorry but i dont see the use of this post. You’ve googled 10 lightbox options, made a screenshot and posted it.
Why not add some info or advice about the differences between these 10. All i see are 10 options with small differences for doing the same thing.
Thanks.. Nice Work.
Fancy Model is just “Marvelous”, I really like it, it really cool and modifiable according to conditions. Also the design pattern is really marvelous.
Thanks for this plugin.
Try out TopUp:
http://gettopup.com
It’s jQuery (soon also Prototype) based and meant to be setup with great ease. The easiest setup is only to include one(!) external Javascript file. It uses one image sprite per layout and doesn’t require a separate stylesheet file to reduce the amount of requests.
The (pixel perfect) look-and-feel is Apple-like with a dashboard and quicklook layout. You can display images, Youtube content, Flash (SWF and FLV), iframes, Ajax content, QuickTime, Windows Media and RealPlayer movies! Display them separately or grouped. So check it out and give it a try ;)
Have you heard of anyone doing a lightbox with page tabs across the top to show html or pdf, etc. I would love to get my hands on some code that would do that…
Great post man. Very useful tools!
jQuery Tools sir!
This is really very good… Thanks
Thanks for this great comprehensive list! Michael
Thanks Chris Spooner
Very nice and useful tutorials to web designers,
Thanks for posting.
What about jqModal, extremely useful
http://dev.iceburg.net/jquery/jqModal/
Good collection thank you for sharing
Thanks alot!
Thanks a lot. It is very useful.
Thank you for sharing this information, I am new to JQuery and I love it.
Thanks for collecting the lightboxes. Very helpful! Now I am confusing which one to use since all lightboxes are handy & awesome! :D