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ColorBox - small lightbox with a styleable appearance.


Submitted by jacklmoore on March 5, 2009 - 12:29am

Notable Features:

  • Supports photos, photo groups, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content.
  • Lightweight: only 9KB of JavaScript.
  • Appearance is completely controlled through CSS so users can restyle the box.
  • Behavior settings can be over-written without altering the ColorBox javascript file.
  • Completely unobtrusive, requires no changes to existing HTML
  • Preloads background images to avoid flash of unstyled content on first use.
  • 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 CSS, and adds no JS global variables.
  • Released under the MIT License.

Tested In: Firefox 2 & 3, Safari 3 & 4, Opera 9, Chrome, Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8.


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