Lightbox Photo Gallery

Below is a photo gallery created using the jQuery plug in called lightbox. jQuery is a very popular javaScript library.

What is jQuery? It is a javaScript library. Meaning that it is a bunch of pre-written JavaScript that allows you, as the developer to use the functions already written in the library. So, instead of writing all the code, you just call the function in jQuery. This description is very simplified, but hopefully you get the idea. To make the code available to you on your web page, you just need to link to the jQuery file in your header.

So what is a plug in? A plug in, like lightbox, is just some additional code that basically extends the library. So, in order for the photo gallery below to work, both the jQuery library AND the lightbox plug are both linked in this page.

Click the photos below to see how the lightbox plug works.

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