# jackmoore/colorbox

A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery

Repository: https://github.com/jackmoore/colorbox
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/colorbox
Homepage: http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-07-06T20:55:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6392, "days_push": 788, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4724, forks 1106 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:57.552750+00:00)

## What it is
Colorbox is a lightweight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery that displays images, galleries, slideshows, ajax, inline, and iframed content in a modal overlay. It is styled via CSS, extensible with callbacks and event hooks, and requires no changes to existing HTML.

## Use cases
- display images in a lightbox overlay on a website
- create an image gallery with grouping and slideshow
- show a login form or page loaded via ajax in a modal
- embed YouTube videos in a modal iframe
- display inline HTML content in a popup dialog
- add a customizable modal popup to a jQuery site

## When to choose
- your site already uses jQuery and you need a lightbox or modal
- you need a tiny (~10KB) plugin supporting photos, ajax, inline, and iframe content
- you want full control over appearance via CSS and behavior via callbacks

## When to avoid
- you are building a modern framework app (React, Vue) without jQuery
- you need a maintained solution with active development and modern browser features
- you need touch/swipe gestures or responsive-first lightbox behavior

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, animation, image-processing
- domain: web-development, frontend, media
- platform: browser
- tags: jquery, lightbox, modal, gallery, slideshow, image-viewer, nodejs

## Member repositories
- jackmoore/colorbox (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:57.552750+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:19:04.822577+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jackmoore/colorbox (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:57.552750+00:00, sha a253f162aace)
  - homepage: http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:03:03.528603+00:00, sha fc0e635f2236)
  - site_page: http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T09:03:03.538661+00:00, sha d15df02d5a54)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.