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Building your own Lightbox with Javascript (part 1)

Posted on Feb 21 in General, jQuery, Tutorials | (1) Comment

See the final result of part 1: Demo Why write your own lightbox? The simple answer is: to learn how it’s done. If you’re going to use if for an image gallery, embed flash and videos or even to load Ajax content you are probably better off using one of the many existing lightbox plugins [...]

See the final result of part 1: Demo

Why write your own lightbox?

The simple answer is: to learn how it’s done. If you’re going to use if for an image gallery, embed flash and videos or even to load Ajax content you are probably better off using one of the many existing lightbox plugins (Thickbox, FancyBox). If you plan to use a lightbox for more complex applications like the admin back end of a cms (see the future Drupal 7 Admin Panel ) then you should either fully understand every line of your plugin or write your own.

This tutorial assumes some knowledge of Javascript. If you are just starting Javascript I highly recommend watching Jeffrey Way’s Javascript from null video series on nettuts.com.

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