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# Magnific Popup

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## Magnific Popup is a responsive lightbox & dialog script with focus on performance and providing best experience for user with any device
(for jQuery or Zepto.js).

## Important note: This jQuery plugin is deprecated, only critical or security bug fixes will be released in future. Use native <dialog> element if you need a basic dialog/modal/popup, or my PhotoSwipe library if you need an advanced image gallery. Feel free to email me if you need assistance.

Documentation · GitHub · WordPress plugin · How it was made
{% include examples.html %}

Don't forget to check out my new article about this plugin on the Smashing Magazine.

## What makes this plugin different?

### Light and modular

Size of core JS file is about 3KB + each module weighs about 0.5KB (gzipped). Sass CSS preprocessor is used for easier skinning, but you're not obligated to use it.

### Content is resized with CSS

The majority of lightbox plugins require you to define size of it via JS option. Magnific Popup does not - feel free to use relative units like EM's or resize lightbox with help of CSS media queries. Update content inside lightbox without worrying about how it'll resize and center.

### Fast

Magnific Popup displays images before they're completely loaded to take full advantage of progressive loading. For in and out transitions CSS3 is used instead of slow JavaScript animation.

### High-DPI (Retina) display support

Default controls are made with pure CSS, without external graphics. For the main image there is a built in way to provide appropriate source for different pixel density displays.

### Conditional lightbox

Plugin has an option to automatically switch to alternative mobile-friendly source on small screen size. Brad Frost has a terrific article about this technique.

### Memory management

Popup has an extendable micro templating engine that reuses existing DOM elements (example), which is especially useful when your popups same pattern.

{% include signup.html %}

## Browser support

Tested on desktop: Chrome, Safari, FF, Opera, IE8+, partial support of IE7 (works, but some visual layout features, like vertical centering, are missing). Mobile: default browser in Android 2.3+, iOS5+, Blackberry 10+, WP7+, mobile Opera and Chrome on Android. If you noticed any bug, please open an issue on GitHub

## License

Script is available under MIT license and will always be kept this way.
But please do me a favor and do not create a public WordPress plugin based on it, because I will make it soon and it will be open souce too. (Want to get notified?).

## Bugs & contributing

Please report bugs via GitHub and ask general questions through StackOverflow. Feel free to submit commit, even the tiniest contributions to the script or to the documentation are very welcome.

Special thanks to:

- Lokesh Dhakar for original Lightbox script.
- Chris Coyier for awesome CSS techniques.
- Brad Frost for conditional lightbox technique.

## Updates

If you wish to get notified about important plugin updates, you may star and watch the repository on GitHub, follow me on Twitter, or join my tiny Mailchimp email newsletter that I send 3-4 times a year.

## Please spread the word if you find the plugin useful

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