Lightbox2 Demos & Installation Notes

Single Image Demo

Image Suite Demo

Lightbox2 Homepage

Installation Notes:

How to Use
Part 1 - Setup

    Lightbox 2 uses the Prototype Framework and Scriptaculous Effects Library. 
    You will need to include these three Javascript files in your header 
    (in this order).

    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/prototype.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects,builder"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/lightbox.js"></script>

    Include the Lightbox CSS file (or append your active stylesheet with the Lightbox styles).

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

    Check the CSS and make sure the referenced prev.gif and next.gif 
    files are in the right location. Also, make sure the loading.gif 
    and close.gif files as referenced near the top of the lightbox.js 
    file are in the right location.

Part 2 - Activate

    Add a rel="lightbox" attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox. For example:

    <a href="images/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="my caption">image #1</a>

    Optional: Use the title attribute if you want to show a caption.
    If you have a set of related images that you would like to group, 
    follow step one but additionally include a group name between 
    square brackets in the rel attribute. For example:

    <a href="images/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #1</a>
    <a href="images/image-2.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #2</a>
    <a href="images/image-3.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #3</a>

    No limits to the number of image sets per page or how many images are allowed in each set. Go nuts!