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.