Lightbox (JavaScript): Difference between revisions

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On a Lightbox-enabled page, a user can click an image to have it magnified in a Lightbox window, which resizes itself according to the size of the image using a gliding animation. Lightbox determines which images will be shown in the modal window through the XHTML "rel" attribute, which is used on an <a> tag wrapped around the <img> tag. Lightbox also provides a way to attach captions to images and to run a slide show, which can be navigated using the arrow keys.

Due to its open-source licensing, a variety of Lightbox clones, with names like "Lytebox", "Thickbox", and "Slimbox" have been created, each with a slightly different set of features, advantages, and disadvantages.

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