Implementing prettyPhoto lightbox effects in Drupal CMS
October 10th, 2009 | 
danreb What is prettyPhoto?
PrettyPhoto is a jQuery based lightbox clone developed by Stephane Caron and released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 licensed. The script can be use in all your projects even commercial ones and if you wish you can give a donation to support the development of the scripts.
The main project page of prettyPhoto can be found here - http://no-margin-for-errors.com . You can read the documentation and learn how to implement the tools in your website projects.
Why prettyPhoto?
- Not only does it support images, it also add support for videos, flash, YouTube, iFrames. It's a full blown media lightbox. It comes with useful APIs so prettyPhoto can be launched from nearly anywhere (yes, that includes Flash)!
- prettyPhoto CSS implementation validate in W3C - so if you want to validate your page in XHTML and CSS 2.1 in W3C then you must go and used prettyPhoto other than any lightbox scripts out there.
- Cross browser and comes with 4 themes for you to choose from.
- Very easy to implements, you just need to included javascript and css in your page(s) - check the documentation.
- And more... discover all features here.
