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JavaScript

Posted by Justin Esders
Justin Esders
9,154 Points

Making a custom lightbox

I have a problem that I need addressed. I need a lightbox(maybe modal window) that when I click a employees picture it pops open a lightbox that has a image on the left and a description of the employee or html content on the right such as an anchor tag for the persons email. Is this possible one, and two it there a JQuery plugin for this? I have looked around and not found exactly this. Can someone help me out?

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Justin,

Would you say that this extra employee content that you want to appear in the lightbox is too much content to be storing on the same page?

Are there a lot of employee pictures with a lot of extra information for each one?

Justin Esders
Justin Esders
9,154 Points

No basically this information is a small amount of info. It basically gives teh email and a short description that is all, well that and the image

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Ok, so you can probably put all the information on the same page then and not have to retrieve it with ajax calls.

Where are you at with it right now? Did you find anything to use yet?

Justin Esders
Justin Esders
9,154 Points

I have started using fancybox. I think this is my best bet. I finally figured out how to implement it the way I wanted.