Using lightbox2 with the core menu system

Submitted by madmatter23 on Wed, 04/13/2011 - 20:09

If you'd like to make a menu item open in a lightbox, you can use the Lightbox2 module in tandem with the Menu Attributes module module to achieve a variety of effects.

Download and enable the Menu Attributes module.

This will let you add a rel attribute to any menu item. Add "lightframe" or one of the following rel values (as appropriate):

  • lightbox for image content
  • lightshow for image slideshows
  • lightvideo for video content
  • lightmodal for inline HTML content. Note this isn't for full web pages, just snippets of HTML content
  • lightframe for everything else, including external web pages.

See here to learn how to put the node content only into a lightbox (stripping out the sidebars, etc).

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