Wednesday, December 23, 2009

How to use lightbox?

Today when i stepped in to the development section i saw that Bob is struggling to get a form page inside panel using lightbox script. The odd thing which i noticed was, i wasn't expected this from him, he was using "Photo" script to embed a form. I initiated a talk with him.

Raj> Bob, what are you trying to do?
Bob> I am trying to open this form inside this floating panel using lightbox script.
Raj> Well, why are you using this script?
Bob> I know that this works, but don't know how. I used another script too but in vain. Can you please help me in.

I realized that up-til now Bob only used lightbox in galleries. So, he was using this for some time but only for the images. I said Hey, Bob you are doing the right thing but in a wrong way. Let's find some examples online to help in.

We looked for the solution on net and finally find an interesting link to a page which hosts very good looking 30+ useful examples of Lightbox.

"Well, this is the link you need Bob", I said. Bob twinkled a smile after a good scuffle with lightbox and said "hhh, wow! yea! Thank you Raj".

So after getting this straight with Bob I just wished to share this whole experience with you guys. Here is the link to site where you can see examples for using lightbox in different ways and styles. Enjoy!