JavaScript Image Popup Window

Question

I would like to setup my gallery web page so that when a user clicks on the thumbnail image, a window pops up displaying a larger view of the image. I do not mean a pop up window as in a browser window but a window that is loaded within that same page and can be closed. I am not exactly sure how I would go about doing this. Any ideas?

Answer 1

See Lightbox2. http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

Answer 2

If you can use jQuery I would recommend

Thickbox

These are also very good

Fancybox

Pirobox

Nyromodal

ImageBox

Answer 3

And a third option: jQuery Tools overlay

Answer 4

I believe the technique you're after is a lightbox (I think it was the first of these).

Thickbox is an awesome jQuery based clone, or there's about a million others out there :-)

Answer 5

Much advance option would be Magnific Or Gettopup