Lightboxes are a way to display a image on the same page elegantly.

Features:

• Lightboxes can be grouped together.
• Titles and descriptions for images.
• Automatic url detection and inclusion of required files, so no configuration is needed.
  * So all you need to do is include it's single .js file and you are good to go.
• Greedy elements (flash, object, select) are hidden away and re-shown appropriatly.
• New / Optimized design.
• Proper jQuery Plugin.
• Provides many easy automatic and manual ways of creating and starting lightboxes.
• Only 15KB in size! (Includes all js, css and image files).

Take a look at the demo site http://www.balupton.com/sandbox/jquery_lightbox/ to see it in action, as well as examples of it's usage.

Based upon Lokesh Dhakar's Lightbox 2: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

Wordpress Plugin available here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-lightbox-balupton-edition/

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