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simple jquery lightbox for displaying images

I cant believe I am asking this - but I spend the last TWO HOURS looking for a simple jquery lightbox to give to my students to learn how to implement...
What I need is something that is very simple:
I have a bunch of images and when I click on them I need a lightbox to open with a (different) image that I can specify...I just cant find anything that does simply that. Of course the lightbox will need to behave like a standard lightbox (X- close button, scale to size of image, have a line of caption or so)
something like:
$('.this-image').click(function(){
awesomelightbox.open('new url');
})
Most of the lightboxes I checked open either the same image that was clicked, or has a gazillion options that my students wont understand.
I tried:
- LightBox
- ColorBox
- FancyBox
- VisualLightbox
- Featherlight
Nothing suits my requirement :(
Does anyone know any simple lightbox that does what I mentioned? I would greatly appreciated any pointers.

Actually, using Fancybox you can do it. I went to their "How To" and they have an example. Look at the last bit of code on the page. If you are only trying to display 2 different images you can use their method. Notice how they have a small.jpg and a big.jpg, so it essence they are using 2 different images. This way they can use one image for thumbnail and a larger one for the actual fancy box. Is this what you are looking for?
EDIT: Or if you would like to use my plugin you are welcome to source it from my site. Here is an example, check sourcecode for usage.
http://tylerteaching.com/coolbox/

I'd recommend using Maginific (http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/), or Pretty Photo (http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/projects/prettyphoto-jquery-lightbox-clone/)

how to build a not preload slide show by javascript?

i would like to make a simple slide show like this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/useful-apps-2013-8#quip-is-a-brand-new-mobile-word-processing-app-quip-is-made-by-facebooks-former-cto-the-app-makes-it-easy-to-create-documents-on-the-go-but-it-still-works-on-your-desktop-too-2
i am new to javascript, may i ask is there any example to build a slide show like above?
it seems the picture will only be loaded from the server side when the user click the previous/next button.
and is there any way to speed us the script as well?
many thanks.

The two simplest sliders/gallery plugins are fancybox and flexislider. Their are plenty of tutorials and help online to use these.

Jquery Mobile data-role="content" without using Jquery Mobile?

I basically want to create the effect of parts of the DOM - divs etc - acting like single pages, like the data-role = content or page - but without using jquery or jqmobile as I find those frameworks too big and much too complicated for the simple tasks I require. They also come heavily designed, that I dont want to use.
I saw these posts, but they are looking for similar transitions, not the basic functionality
JQuery mobile page transition without jQuery mobile
jQuery Mobile CSS3 Page Transitions without jQuery Mobile Library
But these posts lead me to believe there is a simple and light answer out there to mimic the functionality. Can anyone suggest some Javascript, HTML5, or even a light framework that does this?
Thanks

How about just having a look at the JQM source code? That's the nice thing about open-source projects... ;-)
Sourcecode is pretty small, I am sure you'll be able to manually extract whatever fits your needs.

Which is your favourite javascript modal plugin?

I'm trying to choose a JavaScript modal plugin to use it on a web site.
I used to use nyroModal (without making any research on this topic) but they have updated it recently and all of the API has changed and, apparently, some of the functionallity of previous version has been lost.
So, I think that this is time to start thinking about whether nyroModal is the right plugin to choose.
I see this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/756342/whats-your-favorite-jquery-modal-plugin but I'm not asking for a jQuery plugin, but a JavaScript plugin. The one that you prefer.
This is the functionallity I need:
Launch the modal using an anchor
Launch the modal manually and specify its content
Ability to customize all its content
Ability to attach callbacks on specific modal events
Updated documentation
Thank you!

I think most of the best modal layers are built using a particular framework (i.e. jQuery, mootools, dojo, etc).
By the way, I used several times highslide and it's very powerful!! No frameworks needed :)

I am a mootools fan, and this plugin is my favorite at the moment. It does modal for images, videos, and etc. http://iaian7.com/webcode/mediaboxAdvanced
if you are looking for something similar to what facebook as. David Walsh has a modal plugin called LightBox and its great. http://davidwalsh.name/facebook-lightbox
Both of these plugins are based off Mootools framework.

Redbox Alternative?

I am building an app and want to have a lot of the site forms come up in a box over the screen with the background darkened out. I have seen redbox on github and it seems to do what I need it to do but I see that it hasnt been updated since 2007. Is there a new way to go about this? Any alternatives to redbox?
Thanks for your ideas!

Look at overlay effect in jQuery tools - a pretty nice library with a lots of demos. This is a collection of modern user-interface components such as tabs, tooltips, overlay, scrollable and so on. Single JavaScript file weighs only 5.72 Kb.
There is another pretty nice box plugin: jquery fancybox. It can display images, video, flash, html-content. Packed js weighs 15Kb. Very cool stuff.

we used facebox for popup the implementation and how to use popup on ajax subpages also explained http://www.spritle.com/blogs/?p=564. The ui for facebox is already given.Redbox development is stopped I think. I suggest to go for some other solution like thickbox, lightbox or any other solution if you want to apply your own style for your popup.But, in my opinion facebox is better.