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jquery-shinybox
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A touchable jQuery lightbox.
shinybox is a jQuery "lightbox" plugin for desktop, mobile and tablet.
Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, IE8+, IOS4+, Android, windows phone.
Include jquery and the shinybox script in your head tags or right before your body closing tag.
<script src="lib/jquery-1.9.0.js"></script>
<script src="source/jquery.shinybox.js"></script>
Include the shinybox CSS style in your head tags.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="source/shinybox.css">
Use a specific class for your links and use the title attribute as caption.
<a href="big/image.jpg" class="shinybox" title="My Caption">
Bind the shinybox behaviour on every link with the "shinybox" class.
$(".shinybox").shinybox();
id: 'shinybox-overlay', // id of the overlay element
useCSS: true, // false will force the use of jQuery for animations
useSVG: true, // true will use svg icons instead of png icons
removeBarsOnMobile: false, // remove top and bottom bars on mobile
hideCloseButtonOnMobile: false, // hide close button on mobile, you can always use swipe up or down to close the shinybox on mobile
loopAtEnd: false, // Play images in loop in either directions
initialIndexOnArray: 0, // which image index to init when a array is passed
hideBarsDelay: 3000, // 0 to always show caption and action bar
sort: null, // a sorting function to sort the dom elements before showing in shinybox
closePlacement: 'bottom', // places close button in bottom bar
captionPlacement: 'top', // places caption in top bar
navigationPlacement: 'bottom', // places navigation buttons in bottom bar
videoMaxWidth: 1140, // videos max width
autoplayVideos: false, // true will autoplay Youtube and Vimeo videos
vimeoColor: 'CCCCCC', // vimeo color
queryStringData: {}, // plain object with custom query string arguments to pass/override for video URLs
beforeOpen: function(){}, // called before opening
afterClose: function(){}, // called after closing
afterMedia: function(element, index){}, // called after loading media
afterSlide: function(element, index){} // called after sliding to image at the index
Photos by Daniele Zedda Based on Swipebox
FAQs
Shinybox ================================
The npm package jquery-shinybox receives a total of 1,084 weekly downloads. As such, jquery-shinybox popularity was classified as popular.
We found that jquery-shinybox demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 52 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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