How to create a Photo lightbox popup using jQuery Mobile ?

Last Updated : 14 Dec, 2020

jQuery Mobile is a web based technology used to make responsive content that can be accessed on all smartphones, tablets and desktops. In this article, we will be creating a Photo lightbox popup using jQuery Mobile.

Approach: Add jQuery Mobile scripts needed for your project.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css” />

<script src=”http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js”></script>

<script src=”http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.js”></script>

Example: We will create a photo lightbox popup using jQuery Mobile. It can be created by placing an image in a popup.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href= 
"http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css" /> 
  
    <script src= 
        "http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"> 
    </script> 
  
    <script src= 
"http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.4.5/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.js"> 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
  
        <h4> 
            Photo lightbox popup using jQuery Mobile 
        </h4> 
  
        <a href="#popupImage" data-rel="popup" 
            data-position-to="window" data-transition="fade"> 
            <img class="popphoto" src= 
"https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/jquery-banner.png" 
                alt="jQuery" style="width: 20%;"> 
        </a> 
  
        <div data-role="popup" id="popupImage" data-corners="false"> 
            <a href="#" data-rel="back"
                class="ui-btn ui-corner-all ui-shadow  
                ui-btn-a ui-icon-delete ui-btn-icon-notext  
                ui-btn-right"> 
            </a> 
            <img class="popphoto" src= 
"https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/jquery-banner.png"
            style="max-height:512px;" alt="jQuery Image"> 
        </div> 
    </center> 
</body> 
  
</html>