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Life & fun · May 13, 2013

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Let your website visitors view images in fullscreen/lightbox

Let your website visitors view images in fullscreen/lightbox launched on May 13, 2013 with 26 votes, #88 of 587 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

This Bootstrap component lets website visitors open images in a fullscreen lightbox view. It was created to solve the problem of images becoming cramped in narrow layouts, particularly within educational content where detailed visuals are important. The tool displays images at full size for better visibility while keeping the underlying page accessible, making it useful for sites with instructional content, tutorials, or any layout where space is limited.

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From the sources

While running Codelearn.org , we had desperate need to view the images full-screen. Here is short story behind it. Inside the Rails Tutorial , the content is on left & the Playground is on right. Earlier, the Playground was on a separate page & the content had the luxury to span the complete screen. When we decided to combine the two views, the content on the left got pushed to a smaller width. Images faced the worst hit. Some of them were quite descriptive but became pretty 'squeezed' in the final layout. For a long time we kept on searching for 'Jquery plugin to view images full screen'. There were no good matches. Once I visited Fleetio Tour page & found the images have 'view full…from codelearn-org.github.io

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