The original lightbox script. Eight years later — still going strong!

Lightbox is small javascript library used to overlay images on top of the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

For demos and usage instructions, visit lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/.

by Lokesh Dhakar

Lightbox2 is licensed under The MIT License.

• 100% Free. Lightbox is free to use in both commercial and non-commercial work.
• Attribution is required. This means you must leave my name, my homepage link, and the license info intact. None of these items have to be user-facing and can remain alongside the code.

• Maintenance. No substantial additions are being worked on till all open Pull Requests and Issues have been reviewed.

• Add examples.

• [Add] maxWidth and maxHeight options added #197
• [Add] Enable target attribute in caption links #299
• [Change] Switched to The MIT License from Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
• [Change] Add CSS and images to bower.json main property.
• [Change] Dropped version property from bower.json. #453
• [Change] Use src -> dist folder structure for build.
• [Fix] Remove empty src attribute from img tag #287
• [Fix] Correct grammatical error in comment #224
• [Fix] Clear the jquery animation queue before hiding the .lb-loader #309
• [Remove] Remove releases's zips from repo.

• [Fix] Enable links in captions

• [Add] Support for data-title attribute for the caption - Thanks https://github.com/copycut
• [Add] New option to enable always visible prev and next arrows
• [Change] Rewrite Coffeescript code into plain ole Javascript
• [Change] Updated jQuery to v1.10.2
• [Fix] prev/next arrows not appearing in IE9 and IE 10 - Thanks https://github.com/rebizu
• [Fix] Support wrap around option w/keyboard actions. Thanks https://github.com/vovayatsyuk

• [Add] Added wraparound option
• [Add] Added fitImagesInViewport option - now mobile friendly
• [Add] Added showImageNumber label
• [Add] Compatibility with html5shiv
• [Add] Html5 valid using new data-lightbox attribute
• [Add] Compatibility with hmtl5shiv and modernizr
• [Add] Support jquery 1.9+
• [Change] Move reference to loading and close images into css
• [Change] Cache jquery objects

• [Change] Switch to jQuery from Prototype and Scriptaculous
• [Change] Switch from Javacript to Coffeescript
• [Change] Switch from CSS to SASS
• [Add] Repo created on Github