# dimsemenov/Magnific-Popup

Light and responsive lightbox script with focus on performance.

Repository: https://github.com/dimsemenov/Magnific-Popup
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/magnific-popup
Homepage: http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-06-08T08:20:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4983, "days_push": 816, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11314, forks 3354 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:46.714738+00:00)

## What it is
Magnific Popup is a fast, light, and responsive lightbox and modal dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto.js. It can display images, image galleries, inline HTML, iframes (YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps), and forms with CSS3 transition animations.

## Use cases
- display images in a responsive lightbox on a website
- create an image gallery with zoom and lazy-loading
- open YouTube or Vimeo videos in a popup
- show inline HTML dialogs with CSS animations
- embed a form inside a modal popup without losing entered data
- open Google Maps in a lightbox on mobile-friendly pages

## When to choose
- you have an existing jQuery or Zepto.js codebase and need a lightweight lightbox
- you need to mix content types (images, iframes, inline HTML) in one gallery
- you want a small, performant popup script with broad browser support

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project - the plugin is deprecated and only receives critical/security fixes
- you need a touch-friendly image gallery - use PhotoSwipe instead
- you only need a basic modal - use the native <dialog> element

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

## Member repositories
- dimsemenov/Magnific-Popup (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:46.714738+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 2026-08-29T17:15:57.979544+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/dimsemenov/Magnific-Popup (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:46.714738+00:00, sha d03c12264617)
  - homepage: http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:15:00.751097+00:00, sha c78a38d4aa96)
  - site_page: https://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/documentation.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:15:00.760634+00:00, sha 7eaf8d7340d7)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/magnific-popup (fetched 2026-08-29T08:15:00.763978+00:00, sha 2110ee75915a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.