There are numerous ways to show pop-up block like Lightbox for single image, videos, image galleries and other media and content on your website. jQuery is very hot now a days and using a lot in web applications. This is using for client and server side to send and receive much kind of requests and also using in UI. Designer use this for different type of effects in their website projects. This is a fastest way to show you any other information or image. Designers and developers use these techniques in their websites to make their website cool and stylish. You can also use this if you are doing any new project. People will love this effect in your project.
Below is a list of some top scripts for galleries, overlay div, popup boxes. These scripts of jQuesy, Lighbox and Mootools would be very helpful for you.
SlideWindow image viewer plugin
SlideWindow – A Lightweight Image Viewer For Your Website. Works with IE (6+), Firefox, Opera and Chrome.
Slightly ThickerBox 1.7
Slightly ThickerBox is a modification of Thickbox script. It can be used for creation of image galleries.
Slimbox Mootools plugin
Suckerfish HoverLightbox Redux Prototype plugin
ThickBox
ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal. It is outdated now.
Awesome Box JavaScript gallery
With Internet Explorer 6 support. Key navigation using “n” for next, “p” for previous and “x” for close.
Bumpbox 2.0 Mootools lightbox clone
Bumpbox 2.0 – a lightbox clone with support of PDF, flv, swf, audio, images, inline HTML and remote html files. Useful script for web design.
FancyZoom JavaScript plugin
Smooth Javascript image zooming plugin for your websites, lightbox alternative.
FancyZoom with using the jQuery library
This lightbox plugin works with any images, text, headings and flash.
FancyBox gallery – jQuery lightbox alternative
FancyBox is a jQuery library based tool for displaying images, image galleries, html, SWF movies, Iframes and Ajax requests in a Mac OS-style “lightbox”.
Floatbox JavaScript lightbox gallery
Floatbox is a JavaScript plugin for displaying windowed content (pop-up lightbox) over top of web pages. This gallery works in all major browsers.
GreyBox
GreyBox can be used to display websites, images (and galleries) and other content in a pop-up window.
Highslide JS JavaScript thumbnail viewer
Highslide JS is an image, media and gallery viewer written in JavaScript.
ImageZoom Mootools plugin
It is based on LightBox JS. ImageZoom is perfect tool for photo online galleries. It can display large images on top of a page, and has the ability to group multiple photos in one set.
jQuery lightBox plugin
lightBox plugin is used to overlay images on the current page. It is easy-to-use, easy to install and looks elegant, simple and awesome on every web designed page.
Leightbox plugin, Prototype based
Plugin for displaying content in modal windows.
Lightbox+
Inspired by Lightbox JS gallery script. Main feature: the image is resizing automatically to fit your window size.
LightBox2 gallery plugin
Simple image gallery script used to overlay images or sets of images on the current page. LightBox2 works in all modern browsers. It is using Prototype JavaScript library.
Lighter Box2 lightbox script
This is really light weight lightbox script for your website images and galleries. New optimized version works with Chrome 5,6; Firefox 3; IE 7,8,9; Opera 10 and Safari 4,5.
TopUp javascript lightbox
TopUp is an easy to use Javascript jQuery based library for showing images and webpages in a Web 2.0 style (lightbox-like). Supported media: images, flash (Youtube, SWF and FLV files), movies (QuickTime, Windows Media and Realplayer), iframes, DOM elements and raw HTML.
LightWindow v2.0 lightbox plugin
Yet another, but very functional Prototype + Scriptaculous plugin, modal window, lightbox, slimbox or whatever… Tested in Windows Firefox/IE6/IE7/Safari3/Opera & Mac Firefox/Safari/Opera/Netscap. Supports different type pf Media and renders it appropriately.
jsImageBox
Compact and easy-to-use script that allows you to show enlarged images in the pop-up boxes. Website is in Russian language .
ColorBox lightbox jQuery plugin
A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5. This plugin is realized in five different styles. Click on the “Examples” links from 1 to 5 to see all styles in action. Supports photos, grouping, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content.
Control.Modal windowing toolkit for Prototype
Control.Window is a fully programmable, multi purpose windowing toolkit for Prototype.
EnlargeIt! JavaScript gallery
Easy-to-use, can work with pictures, flash, FLV, YouTube, DivX and iframes.
Facebox jQuery Facebook-style lightbox
Easy-to-use, Facebook-style lightbox plugin which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages for your web design.
LiteBox Mootools plugin
It is a modified version of Lightbox v2.0.
LyteBox plugin
Lytebox is another javascript with lightbox effect. It was was written from the Lightbox class. It supports slideshows, themes, HTML content and images.
Milkbox Mootools plugin
Just another lightbox clone for Mootools 1.2.x. Main features are: swf support, AutoSize and maxHeihgt options, AutoPlay, XML Galleries, etc. Milkbox v3.0 will be released soon and it will be based on Mootools 1.3.
piroBox jQuery plugin
piroBox is jQuery based plugin which can open all kind of files: inLine content, swf, images, PDF. Features: auto image resizing, drag and drop. Works with FireFox 2+, Opera 9.5+, Chrome, Safari (Mac/Windows), IE 7+.
PrettyPhoto jQuery based plugin
prettyPhoto is a jQuery based lightbox clone (for opening images in overlay windows). Support images, videos, YouTube, iFrames. Works with all browsers, even with IE6.
Sexy Lightbox Mootools plugin
Really sexy clone of lightbox based on Mootools.
ShadowBox media viewer
Shadowbox is a web-based JavaScript media viewer application that supports many different media formats (images, image galleries, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Flash, Flash video, HTML, and even external web pages). Works with IE6+, Firefox 1.5+, Safari 2+, Chrome, Opera 9+.