Tobii
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An accessible, open-source lightbox with no dependencies.
See it in Action
![Open slide with a picture of the Berlin television tower](https://rqrauhvmra.com/tobi/tobi.png)
Table of contents
Features
- No dependencies
- Accessible:
- ARIA roles
- Keyboard navigation:
Prev
/ Next
Keys: Navigate through slidesESCAPE
Key: Close TobiiTAB
Key: Focus elements within Tobii, not outside
- User preference media features:
prefers-reduced-motion
media query
- When Tobii opens, focus is set to the first focusable element in Tobii
- When Tobii closes, focus returns to what was in focus before Tobii opened
- Touch & Mouse drag support:
- Drag/ Swipe horizontal to navigate through slides
- Drag/ Swipe vertical to close Tobii
- Responsive
- Support iframes
- Support inline HTML
Get Tobii
Download
CSS: dist/tobii.min.css
JavaScript:
dist/tobii.min.js
: IIFE build for maximum browser support, including IE 11dist/tobii.mjs
: Build specially designed to work in all modern browsersdist/tobii.module.js
: ESM builddist/tobii.umd.js
: UMD builddist/tobii.js
: CommonJS/Node build
Package managers
Tobii is also available on npm.
npm install @midzer/tobii --save
Usage
You can install Tobii by linking the .css
and .js
files to your HTML file. The HTML code may look like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Your page title</title>
<link href="tobii.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<script src="tobii.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Initialize the script by running:
const tobii = new Tobii()
Media types
Image
The standard way of using Tobii is a linked thumbnail image with the class name lightbox
to a larger image:
<a href="path/to/image.jpg" class="lightbox">
<img src="path/to/thumbnail.jpg" alt="I am a caption">
</a>
Instead of a thumbnail, you can also refer to a larger image with a text link:
<a href="path/to/image.jpg" class="lightbox">
Open image
</a>
If you use a Markdown parser or CMS and want to make all images in a post
automatically viewable in a lightbox, use the following JavaScript code to add
all images to the same album:
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
document.querySelectorAll('.content-article img').forEach((articleImg) => {
const lightbox = document.createElement('a');
lightbox.href = articleImg.src;
lightbox.classList.add('lightbox');
lightbox.dataset.group = 'article';
articleImg.parentNode.appendChild(lightbox);
lightbox.appendChild(articleImg);
});
});
Inline-HTML
For inline HTML, create an element with a unique ID:
<div id="selector">
</div>
Then create a link with the class name lightbox
and a href
attribute that matches the ID of the element:
<a href="#selector" data-type="html" class="lightbox">
Open HTML content
</a>
or a button with the class name lightbox
and a data-target
attribute that matches the ID of the element:
<button type="button" data-type="html" data-target="#selector" class="lightbox">
Open HTML content
</button>
In both ways, the attribute data-type
with the value html
is required.
Iframe
For an iframe, create a link with the class name lightbox
:
<a href="https://www.wikipedia.org" data-type="iframe" class="lightbox">
Open Wikipedia
</a>
or a button with the class name lightbox
and a data-target
attribute:
<button type="button" data-type="iframe" data-target="https://www.wikipedia.org" class="lightbox">
Open Wikipedia
</button>
In both ways, the attribute data-type
with the value iframe
is required.
Optional attributes
data-height
set the height and data-width
the width of the iframe.
YouTube
For a YouTube video, create a link with the class name lightbox
and a data-id
attribute with the YouTube video ID:
<a href="#" data-type="youtube" data-id="KU2sSZ_90PY" class="lightbox">
Open YouTube video
</a>
or a button with the class name lightbox
and a data-id
attribute with the YouTube video ID:
<button type="button" data-type="youtube" data-id="KU2sSZ_90PY" class="lightbox">
Open YouTube video
</button>
In both ways, the attribute data-type
with the value youtube
is required.
Optional attributes
data-controls
indicates whether the video player controls are displayed: 0
do not display and 1
display controls in the player.data-height
set the height and data-width
the width of the player. I recommend using an external library for responsive iframes.
Grouping
If you have a group of related types that you would like to combine into a set, add the data-group
attribute:
<a href="path/to/image_1.jpg" class="lightbox" data-group="vacation">
<img src="path/to/thumbnail_1.jpg" alt="I am a caption">
</a>
<a href="path/to/image_2.jpg" class="lightbox" data-group="vacation">
<img src="path/to/thumbnail_2.jpg" alt="I am a caption">
</a>
// ...
<a href="path/to/image_4.jpg" class="lightbox" data-group="birthday">
<img src="path/to/thumbnail_4.jpg" alt="I am a caption">
</a>
// ...
Options
You can pass an object with custom options as an argument.
const tobii = new Tobii({
captions: false
})
The following options are available:
Property | Type | Default | Description |
---|
selector | string | ".lightbox" | All elements with this class triggers Tobii. |
captions | bool | true | Display captions, if available. |
captionsSelector | "self", "img" | "img" | Set the element where the caption is. Set it to "self" for the a tag itself. |
captionAttribute | string | "alt" | Get the caption from given attribute. |
captionText | function | null | Custom callback which returns the caption text for the current element. The first argument of the callback is the element. If set, captionsSelector and captionAttribute are ignored. |
nav | bool, "auto" | "auto" | Display navigation buttons. "auto" hides buttons on touch-enabled devices. |
navText | string | ["inline svg", "inline svg"] | Text or HTML for the navigation buttons. |
navLabel | string | ["Previous", "Next"] | ARIA label for screen readers. |
close | bool | true | Display close button. |
closeText | string | "inline svg" | Text or HTML for the close button. |
closeLabel | string | "Close" | ARIA label for screen readers. |
loadingIndicatorLabel | string | "Image loading" | ARIA label for screen readers. |
counter | bool | true | Display current image index. |
keyboard | bool | true | Allow keyboard navigation. |
zoom | bool | true | Display zoom icon. |
zoomText | string | "inline svg" | Text or HTML for the zoom icon. |
docClose | bool | true | Click outside to close Tobii. |
swipeClose | bool | true | Swipe up to close Tobii. |
hideScrollbar | bool | true | Hide browser scrollbars if Tobii is displayed. |
draggable | bool | true | Use dragging and touch swiping. |
threshold | number | 100 | Touch and mouse dragging threshold (in px). |
autoplayVideo | bool | false | Videos will automatically start playing as soon as they can do so without stopping to finish loading the data. |
Data attributes
You can also use data attributes to customize HTML elements.
<a href="path/to/image.jpg" class="lightbox" data-group="custom-group">
Open image.
</a>
The following options are available:
Property | Description |
---|
data-type | Sets media type. Possible values: html ,iframe ,youtube . |
data-id | Required for youtube media type. |
data-target | Can be used to set target for "iframe" and "html" types. |
data-group | Set custom group |
data-width | Set container width for iframe or youtube types. |
data-height | Set container height for iframe or youtube types. |
data-controls | Indicates whether the video player controls are displayed: 0 do not display and 1 display controls in the player. |
data-allow | Allows to set allow attribute on iframes. |
data-srcset | Allows to have Responsive image or retina images |
API
Function | Description |
---|
open(index) | Open Tobii. Optional index (Integer), zero-based index of the slide to open. |
select(index) | Select a slide with index (Integer), zero-based index of the slide to select. |
previous() | Select the previous slide. |
next() | Select the next slide. |
selectGroup(value) | Select a group with value (string), name of the group to select. |
close() | Close Tobii. |
add(element) | Add element (DOM element). |
remove(element) | Remove element (DOM element). |
isOpen() | Check if Tobii is open. |
slidesIndex() | Return the current slide index. |
slidesCount() | Return the current number of slides. |
currentGroup() | Return the current group name. |
reset() | Reset Tobii. |
destroy() | Destroy Tobii. |
Events
Bind events with the .on()
and .off()
methods.
const tobii = new Tobii()
const listener = function listener () {
console.log('eventName happened')
}
tobii.on(eventName, listener)
tobii.off(eventName, listener)
eventName | Description |
---|
open | Triggered after Tobii has been opened. |
previous | Triggered after the previous slide is selected. |
next | Triggered after the next slide is selected. |
Browser support
Tobii supports the following browser (all the latest versions):
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Internet Explorer 11
- Edge
- Safari
Contributing
- Open an issue or a pull request to suggest changes or additions
- Spread the word
License
Tobii is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.