A lightbox often refers to a pop-in window that can be used to display images, videos and html content in modern web applications. There are many fantastic javascript Lightbox solutions available on the web, however this article is focusing on CSS3 Modal Window solutions.

CSS3 is still under development and not all browsers support it, which mean this CSS3 Lightbox solutions are not cross-browser compatible (only the latest versions of the modern non-IE web browsers support CSS3).

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In this post, I’ll be featuring 10 awesome CSS3 Lightbox and modal windows that you can use on you web applications.

Modal Dialog and Lightbox are Ajax solutions for displaying the content inside the browser without reloading the whole page. Lightboxes overcome the use of the pop up window to suit on the modern browsers and it is being used everywhere these days. It is widely used for displaying of media files, webpages , messages, forms etc in a nice looking overlay.

In this post, I’ll be featuring 30 awesome lightbox and modal dialog boxes that you can use on you web applications.

jQuery is a most powerful tool for web designing. It can transform a web page to an entertaining and variable. jQuery is very popular for its very easy implementation. In this article you can see 20 most efficient jQuery lightbox plugins that will be very much useful for your next design. Enjoy!