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Setup
The simplest way to set up Shadowbox is to include the JavaScript and CSS files in the <head> of your document (web page) and then call Shadowbox.init, like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/shadowbox.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/shadowbox.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
Shadowbox.init();
</script>
The following example is a bit more complex and uses an object literal to specify some options. Options passed to this method will become the default for all instances of Shadowbox on the page.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/shadowbox.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/shadowbox.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
Shadowbox.init({
handleOversize: "drag",
modal: true
});
</script>
Markup
Next you need to tell Shadowbox which links you want it to open. The simplest way to do this is through your HTML markup. If you're going to take this route, at the very least you must add a rel="shadowbox" attribute to each link. For example, say you have this link to an image on your page:
<a href="/myimage.jpg">My Image</a>
In order to set up this link for use with Shadowbox, simply change it to this:
<a href="/myimage.jpg" rel="shadowbox">My Image</a>
That's it! Clicking on this link should now open up the image in Shadowbox.
NOTE: The word lightbox will also work here. This feature was added for compatibility with the original Lightbox script. Also note that because HTML area tags do not support the rel attribute, you cannot use this method to set them up for use with Shadowbox. Instead, use Shadowbox.setup as described below.
If you would like to display a title for your image, simply add a title attribute to the link.
<a href="/myimage.jpg" rel="shadowbox" title="My Image">My Image</a>
You must explicitly tell Shadowbox the dimensions to use to display content other than images. This is done by adding a few parameters to the end of the rel attribute, separated by semi-colons. To specify a movie's height and width (in pixels), use the height and width parameters.
<a href="/mymovie.swf" rel="shadowbox;height=140;width=120">My Movie</a>
In addition to displaying single images and movies, Shadowbox is also capable of displaying galleries of content. In order to designate a link as part of a gallery, you must add the gallery name to the rel attribute between square brackets immediately following the word shadowbox. The following markup creates a gallery called "Vacation" with two pictures.
<a href="/beach.jpg" rel="shadowbox[Vacation]">The Beach</a>
<a href="/pier.jpg" rel="shadowbox[Vacation]">The Pier</a>
Galleries may be composed of content of many different types. The following markup demonstrates how various media can be combined into a single gallery.
<a rel="shadowbox[Mixed];" href="/myimage.jpg">jpg</a>
<a rel="shadowbox[Mixed];width=520;height=390" href="/myswf.swf">swf</a>
<a rel="shadowbox[Mixed];width=292;height=218" href="/mymovie.mp4">movie</a>
<a rel="shadowbox[Mixed]" href="/mywebsite.html">iframe</a>
Advanced
If you don't want to add to your markup, you don't have to. Shadowbox may be manipulated and controlled with only JavaScript. This use is slightly more complex, but it has several benefits including the fact that your HTML markup will be cleaner and you can more easily integrate Shadowbox into an existing project.
If you were paying attention in the section about markup, you'll notice that there are several properties that are commonly present on a Shadowbox content object. They are listed in the table below.
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| content | The actual content of the object (e.g. URL, HTML code, etc.) |
| player | The abbreviated name of the player to use for the object (optional, can be automatically determined in most cases) |
| title | The title to use for the object (optional) |
| gallery | The name of the gallery the object belongs to (optional) |
| height | The height of the object (in pixels, only required for movies and Flash) |
| width | The width of the object (in pixels, only required for movies and Flash) |
| options | A set of options to use for this object |
When using markup, each of these properties is automatically derived from the link element itself using the Shadowbox.buildObject method. But now that you know what's really going on behind the scenes, you can just pass objects (or arrays of objects) that contain these properties to Shadowbox.open as in the following example:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/shadowbox.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/shadowbox.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
Shadowbox.init({
// let's skip the automatic setup because we don't have any
// properly configured link elements on the page
skipSetup: true
});
window.onload = function() {
// open a welcome message as soon as the window loads
Shadowbox.open({
content: '<div id="welcome-msg">Welcome to my website!</div>',
player: "html",
title: "Welcome",
height: 350,
width: 350
});
};
</script>
You can also use Shadowbox.setup to manually set up link elements for use with Shadowbox. This can be useful, for example, if you have a page that is updated via Ajax with links being created and destroyed dynamically.
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/shadowbox.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/shadowbox.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
Shadowbox.init({
// skip the automatic setup again, we do this later manually
skipSetup: true
});
window.onload = function() {
// set up all anchor elements with a "movie" class to work with Shadowbox
Shadowbox.setup("a.movie", {
gallery: "My Movies",
autoplayMovies: true
});
};
</script>
When using this method to set up links with Shadowbox, you may mix in the link parameters with the options argument as the second parameter. However, the same parameters will apply to all links set up in the same call, so you may want to make separate calls to Shadowbox.setup for each link.
NOTE: The first parameter to Shadowbox.setup may be a single link element, an array of elements, a CSS selector (assuming you included CSS support when you downloaded the code), or an array in which the first item is a CSS selector and the second item is the context element under which the selection should take place.