Popup image window, with greyed out background

Ashante · 10-12-2008, 23:35

I've seen this effect quite a lot now, but been trying to google to see how it's done. Not really sure what to search for, so not coming up with any good results. Does anyone know what this is called? Or even better, how it's done?

Cheers

Detomah · 10-12-2008, 23:41

java popup script - Google Search

Some of the results on there should help you.

Almost all popup's are done using javascript, you can make them as simple or as complex as you want.

This page has some quite good examples:

Pop-up Scripts

Ashante · 10-12-2008, 23:48

Cheers!

I found what I was looking for..
Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Lightbox image viewer 2.03

Time to sleep now, will set it up tomorrow and see if it works

Detomah · 10-12-2008, 23:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashante

Cheers!

I found what I was looking for..
Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Lightbox image viewer 2.03

Time to sleep now, will set it up tomorrow and see if it works

lol, you never said you wanted an AJAX image viewing tool...

Lightbox is the standard industry tool for it at the mo, it's built in to most galleries and even vBulletin utilises it. It's funky.

Ashante · 12-12-2008, 02:47

Yup it works

And because I love it so much I have to redesign the entire site!
Since my photos page was inside a frame so obviously it pops up only inside the frame.

And yeah... told you I didn't know what it was called, I knew I'd seen it on this site before but couldn't find an example, the thumbnails on the first few threads I opened just opened in new windows.

Ashante · 12-12-2008, 10:52

bleh, another instance of stuff working locally, but not when I upload it!

K a l e i d o s c o p e . E y e s

Was just testing it out on a plain page, and all the thumbnails and images work fine locally, but when I upload everything it doesn't work. Anyone have any ideas? Probably something ******ed again