stephanwagner/jBox

jBox is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create customizable tooltips, modal windows, image galleries and more.

JavaScript

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updated Dec 27, 2025

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README

jBox

Project status

jBox is archived and no longer maintained.

This library was built for the jQuery ecosystem and reflects best practices of its time. It remains available for existing projects, but is not recommended for new development.

Thank you to everyone who used, starred, and contributed to jBox.

Demo: https://stephanwagner.me/jBox

Docs: https://stephanwagner.me/jBox/documentation


Install

ES6

npm install --save jbox
import jBox from 'jbox';
import 'jbox/dist/jBox.all.css';

CDN

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/StephanWagner/[email protected]/dist/jBox.all.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/StephanWagner/[email protected]/dist/jBox.all.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

Tooltips

Create a new instance of jBox Tooltip and attach it to elements:

new jBox('Tooltip', {
  attach: '.tooltip'
});

Now elements with class="tooltip" will open tooltips:

<span class="tooltip" title="My first tooltip">Hover me!</span>
<span class="tooltip" title="My second tooltip">Hover me!</span>

You can set up modal windows the same way as tooltips. But most of times you'd want more variety, like a title or HTML content:

new jBox('Modal', {
  width: 300,
  height: 200,
  attach: '#myModal',
  title: 'My Modal Window',
  content: '<i>Hello there!</i>'
});
<div id="myModal">Click me to open a modal window!</div>

Confirm windows

Confirm windows are modal windows which requires the user to confirm a click action on an element. Give an element the attribute data-confirm to attach it:

new jBox('Confirm', {
  confirmButton: 'Do it!',
  cancelButton: 'Nope'
});
<div onclick="alert('Yay! You did it!')" data-confirm="Do you really want to do this?">Click me!</div>
<a href="https://stephanwagner.me/jBox" data-confirm="Do you really want to leave this page?">Click me!</a>

Notices

A notice will open automatically and destroy itself after some time:

new jBox('Notice', {
 content: 'Hurray! A notice!'
});

Images

To create image windows you only need following few lines:

new jBox('Image');
<a href="/image-large.jpg" data-jbox-image="gallery1" title="My image">
  <img src="/image.jpg" alt="">
</a>

Learn more

These few examples are very basic. The jBox library is quite powerful and offers a vast variety of options to customize appearance and behavior. Learn more in the documentation: https://stephanwagner.me/jBox/documentation

alert
confirm
confirmation-dialog
confirmation-modal
customizable-tooltips
dialog
image-gallery
javascript
jbox
jquery-plugin
lightbox
modal
modal-dialog
modal-window
modal-windows
notice
popup
popup-message
popup-window
tooltip

stephanwagner/jBox

jBox is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create customizable tooltips, modal windows, image galleries and more.

JavaScript

1,391

432 commits

updated Dec 27, 2025

See the code

README

jBox

Project status

jBox is archived and no longer maintained.

This library was built for the jQuery ecosystem and reflects best practices of its time. It remains available for existing projects, but is not recommended for new development.

Thank you to everyone who used, starred, and contributed to jBox.

Demo: https://stephanwagner.me/jBox

Docs: https://stephanwagner.me/jBox/documentation


Install

ES6

npm install --save jbox
import jBox from 'jbox';
import 'jbox/dist/jBox.all.css';

CDN

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/StephanWagner/[email protected]/dist/jBox.all.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/StephanWagner/[email protected]/dist/jBox.all.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

Tooltips

Create a new instance of jBox Tooltip and attach it to elements:

new jBox('Tooltip', {
  attach: '.tooltip'
});

Now elements with class="tooltip" will open tooltips:

<span class="tooltip" title="My first tooltip">Hover me!</span>
<span class="tooltip" title="My second tooltip">Hover me!</span>

You can set up modal windows the same way as tooltips. But most of times you'd want more variety, like a title or HTML content:

new jBox('Modal', {
  width: 300,
  height: 200,
  attach: '#myModal',
  title: 'My Modal Window',
  content: '<i>Hello there!</i>'
});
<div id="myModal">Click me to open a modal window!</div>

Confirm windows

Confirm windows are modal windows which requires the user to confirm a click action on an element. Give an element the attribute data-confirm to attach it:

new jBox('Confirm', {
  confirmButton: 'Do it!',
  cancelButton: 'Nope'
});
<div onclick="alert('Yay! You did it!')" data-confirm="Do you really want to do this?">Click me!</div>
<a href="https://stephanwagner.me/jBox" data-confirm="Do you really want to leave this page?">Click me!</a>

Notices

A notice will open automatically and destroy itself after some time:

new jBox('Notice', {
 content: 'Hurray! A notice!'
});

Images

To create image windows you only need following few lines:

new jBox('Image');
<a href="/image-large.jpg" data-jbox-image="gallery1" title="My image">
  <img src="/image.jpg" alt="">
</a>

Learn more

These few examples are very basic. The jBox library is quite powerful and offers a vast variety of options to customize appearance and behavior. Learn more in the documentation: https://stephanwagner.me/jBox/documentation

alert
confirm
confirmation-dialog
confirmation-modal
customizable-tooltips
dialog
image-gallery
javascript
jbox
jquery-plugin
lightbox
modal
modal-dialog
modal-window
modal-windows
notice
popup
popup-message
popup-window
tooltip

Project health

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Latest release

1.3.3 · Jun 21, 2021

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