jQuery: How can I show an image popup onclick of the thumbnail?

Question

In my aspx page I have a thumbnail image <img>. When the user clicks on that image I would like a popup to show that blocks out the rest of the UI with the larger (full) version of the image.

Are there any plugins that can do this?

Answer 1

There are a lot of jQuery plugins available for this

Thickbox

LightBox

FancyBox

FaceBox

NyroModal

PiroBox

Thickbox Examples

For a single image

1. Create a link element ()
2. Give the link a class attribute with a value of thickbox (class="thickbox")
3. Provide a path in the href attribute to an image file (.jpg .jpeg .png .gif .bmp)