Forum Discussion

Khoros Expert

13 years ago

Lightbox for Video and Photos

A customer is looking to have TKB articles display photos and videos in a Lightbox when selected.

Would it be possible add suport for this functionality to our app via something like this:

If yes, would the client need to manually edit each video/photo link in an article?

Or could we customize the WYSIWYG toolbar to add new Insert Video/Photo buttons that automatically use this new lightbox code?

Claudius
Boss
13 years ago
As we are just about to launch our TKB implementation (with a strong support focus) we are integrating a lot of image and video content as well. I feel that it suits well within the normal text flow to have the images and videos inline. Only downside are bigger images like full screenshots - the only occasion I miss something lightboxesque. Videos never occured as a space-waster to me, because when inserting them I can easily pick the desired preview / thumbnail size already in Lithium.

What's the reason, why the customer wants to explicitly have Lightbox support? The additional attention by putting media exclusively up front?
PrenticeW
Khoros Alumni (Retired)
13 years ago
Tagged.com used some custom code on their own to include this light-box functionality for the videos on their landing page.

You can get more information by checking the source on the following page:

http://help.tagged.com
JustinF
Khoros Expert
13 years ago
Thanks P-Dub! This is exactly what I was looking for using the exact same prettyphoto code.

I did a test on the stage and the code works for videos and photos posted in a TKB article.

It does add a formal level of polish to the presentation of official TKB content.
ArnaudL
Khoros Expert
12 years ago
Hi JustinF : did you mean here that you are able to get all pictures into a RichText area and 'send' them into a lightbox to display all of them like if they were part of a gallery ???? Any still alive example of this ??