In this article we have compiled a list of 15 Free jQuery Lightbox plugins that will help you to display your images and videos through galleries and slideshows beautifully. This list includes free lightbox plugins which you can download and use for your commercial and non-commercial web projects. Following plugins include number of features like responsiveness, retina ready, touch support, swipe gesture, zoom effects and much more.
So, without further ado, let’s explore the list of Best jQuery Lightbox Plugins below.
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1. Toxicbox
ToxicBox is a jQuery lightbox plugin that displays pictures, containers, and notifications in a popup window. This plugin is cross browser compatible, responsive, lightweight, includes zoom and gallery grouping.
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2. Zoomify
Zoomify is a jQuery plugin for simple lightboxes with zoom effect. This plugin has zoomin, zoomout and reposition features for better picture display.
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3. Lightbox for Bootstrap 3
A lightbox gallery plugin for Bootstrap 3 based on the modal plugin. It supports images, YouTube videos, and galleries.
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4. Simple Lightbox
Simple Lightbox is a touch-friendly image lightbox for mobile and desktop with jQuery. Simple Lightbox is responsive, lightweight, comes with keyboard support, next and previous image, mobile support, and other customizable options.
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5. Lightcase
Lightcase is a flexible, responsive and extendable lightbox plugin created by using jQuery. It works fine in all common browsers like Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox, Opera, Webkit and more. It supports photo, video, HTML5 video, iframe, swf and ajax calls.
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6. Chocolat
Chocolat is a responsive jQuery lightbox plugin that is powerful and easy to use. Chocolat comes with an API and multiples CSS classes which make it very handy to use for advanced users and very easy to use for noobs.
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7. ScalableLightbox
ScalableLightbox is a jQuery plugin for building aesthetically minimalistic, responsive picture lightboxes. This plugin is retina ready, responsive and touch optimized, integrated image preloader, hardware accelerated CSS3 animations and comprehensive documentation.
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8. Strip
Strip is a Lightbox that only partially covers the page. This makes it less intrusive and leaves room to interact with the page on larger screens while giving smaller mobile devices the classic Lightbox experience.
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9. Lighterbox
Lighterbox is a lightweight and customizable jQuery lightbox gallery plugin. This is quite simple plugin which supports modern mobile and desktop browsers to minimize configuration and hacky code.
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10. baguetteBox.js
baguetteBox.js is a simple and easy to use lightbox script in pure JavaScript. This script is written in pure JavaScript, you can create multiple galleries with it and also comes with touch screen devices support with swipe gestures.
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11. Rebox
jQuery-Rebox is a simple, lightweight, responsive and mobile friendly jQuery lightbox plugin. It’s simple and do not require any images.
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12. Litebox
LiteBox is a versatile, auto detecting content, lightbox/modal window for use with images, embedded content (YouTube, Vimeo, Daily Motion and KickStarter), iframes and inline html.
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13. lightGallery
jQuery lightGallery is a lightweight jQuery lightbox gallery for displaying image and video gallery. This plugin includes touch support for mobile devices, also comes with YouTube, Vimeo video support.
lightGallery is responsive, lightweight (7kb) and has browser compatibility along with Font icon support and thumbnail support.
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14. Image Lightbox
Image Lightbox is a ascetic, minimalistic, extensible & configurable, responsive and touch-friendly, iOS, Android and Windows Phone compatible lightbox plugin. Silently preloads next image, uses CSS transform and transition, interacts with keyboard.
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15. VenoBox
VenoBox is a just another responsive jQuery lightbox plugin, suitable for images, inline contents, iFrames, Google-Maps, Ajax requests, Vimeo and YouTube videos.
The big difference compared to many others modal-window plugins is that VenoBox calculates the max width of the image displayed and preserves its height if is taller than the window (so in small devices you can scroll down the content, avoiding vertical microscopic resized images).
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Final Words
So, these were the free jQuery lightbox plugins which are able to display your media in elegant style to draw your visitors attention. With these lightbox plugins you can display any type of media like images, videos etc.. If you are aware of some other lightbox plugins, please let us know by posting a comment below, we would love to add the plugin into the list.
