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15 Stunning jQuery Lightbox Plug-ins for Your Upcoming Designs

If you see a website built on jQuery using images, they must have played with a lightbox in that context. That’s the power of the lightbox, it can transform any simple image library into an attractive and effective gallery. It’s an important and popular contribution from the jQuery side to the design community.
Thanks to the awesome jQuery community who make these stunning lightbox plug-ins, giving huge scope for designers to showcase images on websites. There is a huge collection of plug-ins each giving a different look and style to images.
We collected 15 stunning jQuery lightbox plug-ins for your reference. Hope you’ll find it worth having a look.
jQuery Lightbox Plug-ins


Stunning jQuery Lightbox Plug-ins

Lightview jQuery Plug-in

Lightview was built to change the way you overlay content on a website.
Lightview jQuery Plug-in
TopUp

TopUp is an easy to use JavaScript library for unobtrusively displaying images and Web pages in a Web 2.0 approach of pop-up. The library is jQuery and jQuery UI driven in order to maintain cross-browser compatibility and compactness.
TopUp
Highslide Lightbox Plug-in

Highslide JS is an image, media and gallery viewer written in JavaScript.
Highslide Lightbox Plug-in
Color Box

A lightweight customizable lightbox plug-in for jQuery 1.3+
Color Box
Lightbox 2

Lightbox 2 is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to set up and works on all modern browsers.
Lightbox 2
prettyPhoto

prettyPhoto is a jQuery lightbox clone. Not only does it support images, it also supports videos, flash, YouTube, frames and Ajax. It’s a full blown media lightbox.
prettyPhoto
Slimbox 2

Slimbox 2 is a 4 KB visual clone of the popular Light box 2 script by Lokesh Dhaka, written using the jQuery JavaScript library.
Slimbox 2
Shadowbox

Shadowbox is a web-based media viewer application that supports all of the web's most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable.
Shadowbox
Pirobox Extended V.1.0.

One of the most important things with this plug-in is the ability to open any kind of file, from inline content to .swf files, from simple images to .pdf files.
Other things are: automatic image resizing and drag and drop.
Pirobox Extended V.1.0
GreyBox

GreyBox can be used to display websites, images and other content in a beautiful way.
GreyBox
jQuery Super Box

jQuery Super box! Is a script which allows you to display windows with the lightbox effect.
This script is a plug-in for jQuery (1.3.x).
jQuery Super Box
Fancy Box

Fancy Box is a tool for displaying images, HTML content and multimedia in a Mac-style "light box" that floats overtop of web page.
Fancy Box
Pirobox Extended V.1.1.

Pirobox Extended V.1.1 advanced version, Zoom In option with dragable image viewer for large dimension images.
Pirobox Extended V.1.1
jQuery Lightbox Plug-in

JQuery lightbox plug-in is simple, elegant, and unobtrusive, no need for extra markup, and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery´s selector.
jQuery Lightbox Plug-in
Ceebox

An overlay pop-up script for easily embedding flash video, displaying images, or showing HTML (either external sites via iframe or content on your own site via AJAX).
Ceebox

Conclusion

Do you use any of these lightboxes in your website design work? Do you have a favorite lightbox plug-in? If you do and we haven't listed it here, please share the link with us in the comments below. Your comments and opinions are always very welcome.

Written by: Carol Francis for Onextrapixel - Web Design & Development Online Magazine | One comment