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Dev tools · May 2, 2013

Weekend project - Magnific Popup

Light and open source responsive lightbox plugin with focus on performance, for jQuery and Zepto.js. High-DPI (retina) display support, fast tap for touch devices.

Weekend project - Magnific Popup launched on May 2, 2013 with 196 votes, #9 of 587 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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Magnific Popup is a lightweight, open-source responsive lightbox plugin designed for jQuery and Zepto.js, emphasizing performance and speed. It supports high-DPI displays, touch gestures with fast tap functionality, and allows mixed HTML content types within galleries. The plugin offers flexible scaling options, zoom animations, and lazy-loading capabilities for images. It is built for developers creating interactive image galleries and popup content on web projects.

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Three simple popups with different scaling settings. 1 — fits horizontally and vertically, 2 — only horizontally, 3 — no gaps, zoom animation, close icon in top-right corner. You may put any HTML content in each gallery item and mix content types . In this example lazy-loading of images is enabled for the next image based on move direction. If you wish to add touch-swipe support, check my article on the Smashing Magazine, or new PhotoSwipe script. If you wish to open the popup only after image is fully loaded, you may preload image via JS. Or use scaled down image instead of thumbnail. Zoom effect works only with images, for now. In this example lightboxes are…from dimsemenov.com

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