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

• Maintenance. Get open Issues and PRs number down.

• HTML or video content. The goal of the script from the start has been to provide a better image viewing experience and I am planning on staying focused on that vision. Don't worry though there are plenty of alternative scripts a google away for those who need HTML or video content support.

• Add touch gesture support.
• Rewrite animations for performance and flexibility.
• Optimize layout for mobile.
• Optimize layout for screens of varying densities.
• Use inline SVG for UI elements.
• Do not initialize automatically and allow multiple instances.
• Add event handlers.
• Allow the setting of options from HTML.
• Allow instantiation with jQuery plugin syntax.
• If one of the two options, maxWidth or maxHeight, is set, maintain aspect ratio.
• Evaluate start, end, and transition animations.
• Evaluate preloading and caching.
• Evaluate droppping jQuery requirement.
• If user attempts to go forward when at end of image set, animation (shake?) indicating the end or option to close Lightbox.

• [Add] npm support. npm install --save lightbox2
• [Add] Add option to disable vertical scrolling #487 Thanks blacksunshineCoding
• [Fix] When horizontal scrolling is on page the overlay is not covering entire page #485 Thanks @manuel-io
• [Change] Add css minify task to Gruntfile.js and removedlegacy css vendor prefixes for border-radius. #470 Thanks ajerez

• [Fix] Change AMD jQuery require statement to use all lowercase. #464 Thanks @vtforester

• [Add] UMD support (AMD, CommonJS, fallback to global export).#461
• [Add] option method for setting options. #461
• [Add] CONTRIBUTING.md

• [Change] Revert jquery dep version to 2.x from 1.x. Added note to Lightbox page about using jQuery 1.x to get IE6, 7, and 8 support.
• [Fix] Preserve author and license comments from lightbox.js in minified files.

• [Add] Barebone HTML file with examples /examples/index.html.
• [Add] jquery.lightbox.js which concatenates jQuery and Lightbox. This is for those who are Bower averse or want an extra easy install.

• [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 @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 @rebizu
• [Fix] Support wrap around option w/keyboard actions. Thanks @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

• Update version number in src/lightbox.js
• Update README.md Changelog with release date
• grunt build
• Push to Github repo
• Create a new Github release along with tag. Naming convention for both v2.8.1