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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

by Jay L Johnston
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
276 pages
5h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Launching a lightbox image from a thumbnail

When a thumbnail is clicked, let's launch a lightbox to show a larger version of the image.

Getting ready

We are working off the previous recipe; be sure to familiarize yourself with the concepts of the scrolling thumbnail list. Here we will add a pop-up-like lightbox overlay that will show a full version of any thumbnail image in our scrolling thumbnail display.

Getting ready

How to do it...

Continue the previous recipe and make it better by launching a lightbox on mouse-click. Style the lightbox such that the overlay uses a semi-transparent PNG image to partially obscure the background of the page.

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