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From: http://www.dottony.com/30-useful-ajax-lightbox-and-modal-dialog-solutions/
Modal dialog, windows or a popular term lightbox is an unobtrusive ajax solution for displaying the content inside the page itself, it overcome the constraint of pop up windows which blocked by most of the modern browser. However, the usages of lightbox is more widely apply to preview of images, image gallery and form model. Since it only loads the relevant content in a box, it increase the loading time and whole user browsing experience. Below shown the details and demonstrate the default outlook of the lightbox.
A popular lightbox solutions that written by Lokesh Dhakar, it is built on prototype and scriptaculous framework. It only supports images and slideshow.
Inspired by lightbox and include the support for form and html. It is based on prototype and scriptaculous.
Lightweight and customizable lightbox plugin through CSS and jQuery. The plugin support images, image group, ajax, inline content and iframe content.
Display images, html and multimedia content. It is a jQuery based lightbox.
Similar to Lokesh Dhakar lightbox solutions, except it is jQuery based.
Jquery lightbox clone and support more multimedia format.
Lightweight lightbox which built on moo.fx and prototype.lite.
Similar solutions to lightbox2, but it has more features like display inline content, iframed content or content served through ajax in a hybrid modal. It is build on jQuery.
A mod from thickbox which add on next and previous button to form a images gallery.
The ultimate lightweight Lightbox clone for jQuery. As stated, slim and slimmer solutions for lightbox.
Built with prototype and scriptaculous. Supports plenty of media format.
jQuery UI also contains dialog component, although its nature is more like a dialog and form. But, you can customize to create your own flavor of image preview or gallery.
A prototype based window dialog.
MochaUI is an UI framework for mootools. It includes dialog windows for displaying rich content.
Facebook lightbox aliked, jQuery based modal dialog. It support images, div or entire remote pages.
Facebox aliked, but it support more features like dragging and size tweening.
A modal dialog that allow you to include html within. Build with prototype and scriptaculous.
Support most of the media format and it is customizable through css. On top of that, it is a standalone javascript solutions. It is free for non-commercial usage.
A comprehensive lightbox solutions which enable you to embed images, video,iFrame, flash and more.
Yet another jQuery based modal dialog.
Support images,flash, video, mp3 and html and it is build with mootools.
Can be used to display websites, images and other content, doesn’t rely on any ajax framework.
A really quick and smooth free image viewer. It supports plenty of formats like html,ajax,iframe and flash.
Another standalone lightbox which display content directly from html.
If you need more lightbox plugin for wordpress, you can visit the link here.