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There are so many implementations of the lightbox, which is your favourite to use for your custom site? (javascript based)

I generally use Lightbox2

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  • Can you provide more information on what you mean by lightbox (pure JS implementation, for integration on custom sites, plugin to existing CMS or Blog, what?). One-sentence questions are borderline down-vote for me.
    – JasonBirch
    Aug 17, 2010 at 16:52
  • Good point, clarified a little, was just looking at general custom site implementations
    – Wil
    Aug 17, 2010 at 17:20
  • I'm not sure that clarification helped! By "custom" do you mean "hand-coded" as opposed to "off-the-shelf product"? Most lightboxes I've used (including the one in my example) are JS implementations, so it doesn't really matter whether the site runs on wordpress or compiled C code.
    – Bobby Jack
    Aug 17, 2010 at 17:23

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Fancybox is a very nice one I recently discovered. It handles youtube videos particularly well.

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I like Nick Stakenburg's Lightview, even though it's based on prototype and it requires a lot of frameworks. From my testing, it behaves identical in all the browsers.

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  • +1 I've been looking for a good prototype based light box
    – John Conde ♦
    Aug 17, 2010 at 18:50
  • This one is solid. ;)
    – Alex
    Aug 18, 2010 at 5:50
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I like PrettyPhoto. It's lightweight, easy to use, built on jQuery, can open anything you could need.

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ColorBox is pretty good, though I have had a problem with smaller images and/or longer title captions (it does not stretch the bounding box if the text wraps).

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The classic one is ThickBox. It is no longer maintained but is great if you want a nice, simple lightbox with no fuss.

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I like LyteBox for it's small size. Although I had to modifiy it to support "close on click" feature.

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Shadowbox is pretty sweet. Not only it can generate the usual image galeries, it also can generate lightboxed out of videos, flash or even html (good for contextual help).
It also has many ways of handling large images (crop, pan, zoom, etc), and you can close the box with esc.
Standalone, but compatible with jquery.

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If you're looking for a flexible lightbox that can handle any type of media, check out mediaboxAdvanced for MooTools.

It supports:

  • Images
  • Twitter
  • Social Video
  • Flash media
  • Quicktime
  • Inline
  • HTML
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