# defunkt/facebox

Facebook-style lightbox, built in jQuery

Repository: https://github.com/defunkt/facebox
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/facebox
Homepage: http://defunkt.io/facebox/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-02-22T17:44:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6778, "days_push": 923, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1915, forks 375 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:53.703033+00:00)

## What it is
Facebox is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox plugin that can display images, divs, or remote pages in a modal overlay. It is a legacy frontend library targeting old browsers and is no longer actively maintained.

## Use cases
- show images in a modal lightbox on a webpage
- display a div or inline content in a popup dialog
- load remote pages via ajax into a modal overlay
- add facebook-style popup dialogs to a jquery site
- open modal dialogs with rel=facebox links

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy jQuery codebase that already uses Facebox
- you need a simple lightbox for an old browser-support matrix

## When to avoid
- starting a new modern frontend project
- you need accessibility features or mobile support
- you want an actively maintained library

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, animation
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser
- tags: lightbox, modal-dialog, jquery-plugin, legacy, jquery

## Member repositories
- defunkt/facebox (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.703033+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 2026-08-30T03:10:23.310403+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/defunkt/facebox (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:53.703033+00:00, sha d39e38a3db60)
  - homepage: http://defunkt.io/facebox/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:49:50.754039+00:00, sha f3fbce8c4416)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.