Jamie Le Souef

You may call it Lightbox, or Greybox, or Thickbox, but it’s always the same effect.
When you are on a page, and click on a photo or trig some event, a Lightbox is an effect that fades the pagein the background to show you new content in the foreground.

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There are 5 Responses to “ Use CSS to create a lightbox effect ”

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Charles | i24Designs Says

CSS is great, but I wouldn’t be so hard on JavaScript… j script is awesome, especially these days with all the great frameworks out there… JQuery, Prototype, Scriptaclulous… oh man, you can do some awesome stuff. You gotta love CSS, it has revolutionized web design, but it can’t replace a client side scripting language like good old JavaScript.

March 13th, 2009 at 7:03 am

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Jamie Le Souef Says

I tend to agree with you these days. CSS is great, but jQuery just makes life so much easier for the designer. It’s seems JS has really come into it’s own in the last couple of years with AJAX and has found a great place in web design – not like the JS of the 90s where it was horrid effects and gimmicky crap. Googles CDN has also made it a snap to use these frameworks without the overheads.

March 13th, 2009 at 8:14 am

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Thomas Says

I agree that jQuery is better. Its easy to coding and have good results.

March 30th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

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Dejan Petrovic Says

Being in the SEO industry I am very much aware of content access by crawlers. I had many bad experiences with AJAX so far… CSS is the way to go if there is content to be handled.

May 4th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

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Johnny Says

I agree with Thomas. JQuery, mootool and etc are easy to use to design and create effects.

Johnnys last blog post..Learn CSS in 3 easy steps

May 21st, 2009 at 3:50 pm

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