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A light-weight, customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery 1.4.3+. Iframed or
inline images or content can be displayed in a popup or modal "lightbox" above
the current page.
The Colorbox module:
- Excellent integration with Image fields and Image styles
- Choose between a default style and 5 example styles that are included.
- Style the Colorbox with a custom colorbox.css file in your theme.
The Colorbox plugin:
- Supports photos, grouping, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content.
- Appearance is controlled through CSS so it can be restyled.
- Preloads upcoming images in a photo group.
- Completely unobtrusive, options are set in the JS and require no changes to existing HTML.
- Released under the MIT License.
Colorbox - http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox
Installation
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Install this module using the official Backdrop CMS instructions at
https://backdropcms.org/user-guide/modules -
Configure your image fields or views to display images in colorboxes.
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(Optional) Visit the configuration page under Administration > Configuration >
Media > Colorbox (admin/config/media/colorbox) and configure as necessary.
Differences from Drupal
- If you would like to use HTML tags in colorbox captions, you will need to enable
the new settingAllow HTML in Colorbox captions. This configuration will use
the DOMpurify library for sanitization. Please note: The DOMpurify library
has several dependencies with security issues. It is unknown whether the
colorbox use of DOMpurify could introduce a vulnerablity to your site. For
this reason it is recommend to leave this setting disabled. - The Backdrop version of Colorbox module does not require that you download or
install the Color library separately. - The Backdrop version of Colorbox module does not require that you download or
install the DomPurify library separately.
Current Maintainers
- jenlampton (https://github.com/jenlampton)
- Robert J. Lang (bugfolder) (https://github.com/bugfolder)
- Seeking additional maintainers
Credits
- Ported to Backdrop by Andy Martha
- Drupal module maintainer Paul McKibben
- Drupal module maintainer Fredrik Jonsson
- Drupal module maintainer Sam Becker
- Drupal module maintainer Andrii Podanenko
- Drupal module maintainer Francisco José Cruz Romanos
- Drupal module maintainer Joe Wheaton
- The Colorbox jQuery library
Licenses
- This project is GPL v2 software. See the LICENSE.txt file in this directory
for complete text. - The Colorbox jQuery library is released under the MIT License.
- The DOMpurify library is released under a dual license of Apache-2.0 and MPL-2.0.