# Colorbox

Lightbox plugin for jQuery that shows photos, grouped images, slideshows and inline or iframed content in an overlay.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/colorbox/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04
Listed since: 2026-11-04

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/
- repository: https://github.com/jackmoore/colorbox

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: Jack Moore
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2009
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: ui-library
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: unknown
- runtimeMin: not applicable
- basedOn: jquery

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: not applicable
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: unknown

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2016-05-10

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 4715
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 17107
- contributors: 53
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/ (read 2026-11-04)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/jackmoore/colorbox (read 2026-11-04)
- status: https://api.github.com/repos/jackmoore/colorbox (read 2026-11-04)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jackmoore/colorbox/master/LICENSE.md (read 2026-11-04)
- firstRelease: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jackmoore/colorbox/master/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- category: https://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/ (read 2026-11-04)
- basedOn: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jackmoore/colorbox/master/README.md (read 2026-11-04)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/jackmoore/colorbox (read 2026-11-04)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jackmoore/colorbox/master/LICENSE.md (read 2026-11-04)
- currentMajor: https://registry.npmjs.org/jquery-colorbox/latest (read 2026-11-04)
- latestReleaseDate: https://registry.npmjs.org/jquery-colorbox/latest (read 2026-11-04)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/jackmoore/colorbox (read 2026-11-04)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/jackmoore/colorbox/contributors (read 2026-11-04)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-10-26:2026-11-01/jquery-colorbox (read 2026-11-04)

## Notes

Colorbox is a lightbox plugin for jQuery that shows photos, grouped images, slideshows, and inline or iframed content in an overlay. It is a plugin built on jQuery, and its npm package is named jquery-colorbox.

## Worth knowing

The source repository the project names on its homepage is archived on GitHub, so the project counts as discontinued.

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