Lightbox

Simple Modal is a small plugin to create modal windows. It can be used to generate alert or confirm messages with few lines of code. Confirm configuration involves the use of callbacks to be applied to affirmative action; it can work in asynchronous mode and retrieve content from external pages or getting the inline content. Simple Modal is not a lightbox although the possibility to hide parts of its layout may partially make it similar.  

Colorbox is a lightweight customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery. It accepts settings from an object of key/value pairs, and can be assigned to any HTML element. Colorbox - Features: Supports photos, grouping, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content. Lightweight: 10KB of JavaScript (less than 5KBs gzipped). Appearance is controlled through CSS so it can be restyled. Can be extended with callbacks & event-hooks without altering the source files. Completely unobtrusive, options are

Photobox is a lightweight image gallery modal window script which uses only CSS3 for silky-smooth animations and transitions, utilizes GPU rending, which can be completely controlled and themed directly from the CSS.   Benefits: Lightweight! Both script & CSS are no more than 10k each (minified, no gzip) Silky-smooth, hardware accelerated, CSS3 transitions and animations (for better performance) Support videos via iframe embedding Stunning UI and user-friendly UX Built so everything c

Rondell is a jQuery plugin for displaying galeries and other content the way you want.  

Elevate Zoom is a jQuery image zoom plugin.   Elevate Zoom - Features: Fully Customisable Coloured Tints Fancybox Gallery Support Variable zoom on mouse scroll External Controls Window Zoom, Lens Zoom and Inner Zoom Free to use under MIT and GPL Licenses    

ion.zoom is an easy image lightbox jQuery plugin for small galleries. Allow to zoom images at place.   ion.zoom - Features: Supports keyboard controls with ESC, LEFT and RIGHT button. Supports multiple independently operating galleries in one page. Crossbrowser: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE(8.0+). Works on touch screen devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.).    

Picbox is a lightweight javascript image viewer based on the excellent Slimbox by Christophe Beyls, and available using either the Mootools or jQuery frameworks. It features automatic resizing and zooming of large images, allowing them to fit in the browser or be viewed at full size.    

blueimp Gallery is a touch-enabled, responsive and customizable image & video gallery, carousel and lightbox, optimized for both mobile and desktop web browsers. It features swipe, mouse and keyboard navigation, transition effects, slideshow functionality, fullscreen support and on-demand content loading and can be extended to display additional content types.    

Fresco is a beautiful responsive lightbox.  It can be used to create stunning overlays that work great at any screen size, in all browsers on every device. To make things even more awesome Fresco comes with fullscreen zoom, retina-ready skins, support for swipe events, Youtube and Vimeo integration for HTML5 video and a powerful Javascript API.