JS Animated. How to implement jQuery “prettyPhoto” lightbox plugin

This tutorial is going to show you how to implement the jQuery prettyPhoto lightbox plugin into your JS Animated template.

PrettyPhoto is a jQuery lightbox clone. It supports not only images, but also videos, flash, YouTube, iframes and ajax. It’s a full blown media lightbox.

1. Download prettyPhoto_compressed_3.1.5.zip from http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/  on your computer and unpack it.

   

2. Copy the js and css folders from the unzipped package and paste them into the site folder of your template package. Since you already have folders with the same names there, you will be asked to replace them. This will just add the files in these folders to them, so just go ahead and agree to the replacement.

   

3. Open the .html file with the image you want to apply the plugin to and add the libraries and the table of styles to it in DreamWeaver to the section:

   

4. Find the line with the image, e.g.:

And change it to:



In the images folder there should be image_big.jpg and image_small.jpg accordingly.



5. Initialize prettyPhoto: add the following to your .html file right before the closing tag:


6. Save the changes and  check your page in a web browser: the image should be opening in a lightbox.
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For more information on how to use the plugin, please refer to the official manual at http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/documentation.

Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below: