Tobii

An accessible, open-source lightbox with no dependencies.

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Features
Get Tobii
- Download
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Usage
Media types
- Image
- Inline HTML
- Iframe
- YouTube
Grouping
Options
API
Events
Browser support
Contributing
License

Features

No dependencies
Supports multiple content types:
- Images
- Inline HTML
- Iframes
- Videos (YouTube, Vimeo)
Grouping
Events
Customizable with settings and CSS
Accessible:
- ARIA roles
- Keyboard navigation:
  - Prev/ Next Keys: Navigate through slides
  - ESCAPE Key: Close Tobii
  - TAB Key: Focus elements within Tobii, not outside
- User preference media features:
  - prefers-reduced-motion media query
- When Tobii opens, focus is set to the first focusable element in Tobii
- When Tobii closes, focus returns to what was in focus before Tobii opened
Touch & Mouse drag support:
- Drag/ Swipe horizontal to navigate through slides
- Drag/ Swipe vertical to close Tobii
Responsive

Get Tobii

Download

CSS: dist/tobii.min.css

JavaScript:

dist/tobii.min.js: IIFE build for maximum browser support, including IE 11
dist/tobii.mjs: Build specially designed to work in all modern browsers
dist/tobii.module.js: ESM build
dist/tobii.umd.js: UMD build
dist/tobii.js: CommonJS/Node build

Package managers

Tobii is also available on npm.

npm install @midzer/tobii --save

Usage

You can install Tobii by linking the .css and .js files to your HTML file. The HTML code may look like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Your page title</title>

  <!-- CSS -->
  <link href="tobii.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
  <!-- Your HTML content -->

  <!-- JS -->
  <script src="tobii.min.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Initialize the script by running:

const tobii = new Tobii()

Media types

Image

The standard way of using Tobii is a linked thumbnail image with the class name lightbox to a larger image:

<a href="path/to/image.jpg" class="lightbox">
  <img src="path/to/thumbnail.jpg" alt="I am a caption">
</a>

Instead of a thumbnail, you can also refer to a larger image with a text link:

<a href="path/to/image.jpg" class="lightbox">
  Open image
</a>

If you use a Markdown parser or CMS and want to make all images in a post automatically viewable in a lightbox, use the following JavaScript code to add all images to the same album:

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => {
  // This assumes your article is wrapped in an element with the class "content-article".
  document.querySelectorAll('.content-article img').forEach((articleImg) => {
    // Add lightbox elements in blog articles for Tobii.
    const lightbox = document.createElement('a');
    lightbox.href = articleImg.src;
    lightbox.classList.add('lightbox');
    lightbox.dataset.group = 'article';
    articleImg.parentNode.appendChild(lightbox);
    lightbox.appendChild(articleImg);
  });
});

Inline-HTML

For inline HTML, create an element with a unique ID:

<div id="selector">
  <!-- Your HTML content -->
</div>

Then create a link with the class name lightbox and a href attribute that matches the ID of the element:

<a href="#selector" data-type="html" class="lightbox">
  Open HTML content
</a>

or a button with the class name lightbox and a data-target attribute that matches the ID of the element:

<button type="button" data-type="html" data-target="#selector" class="lightbox">
  Open HTML content
</button>

In both ways, the attribute data-type with the value html is required.

Iframe

For an iframe, create a link with the class name lightbox:

<a href="https://www.wikipedia.org" data-type="iframe" class="lightbox">
  Open Wikipedia
</a>

or a button with the class name lightbox and a data-target attribute:

<button type="button" data-type="iframe" data-target="https://www.wikipedia.org" class="lightbox">
  Open Wikipedia
</button>

In both ways, the attribute data-type with the value iframe is required.

Optional attributes

data-height set the height and data-width the width of the iframe.

YouTube

For a YouTube video, create a link with the class name lightbox and a data-id attribute with the YouTube video ID:

<a href="#" data-type="youtube" data-id="KU2sSZ_90PY" class="lightbox">
  Open YouTube video
</a>

or a button with the class name lightbox and a data-id attribute with the YouTube video ID:

<button type="button" data-type="youtube" data-id="KU2sSZ_90PY" class="lightbox">
  Open YouTube video
</button>

In both ways, the attribute data-type with the value youtube is required.

Optional attributes

data-controls indicates whether the video player controls are displayed: 0 do not display and 1 display controls in the player.
data-height set the height and data-width the width of the player. I recommend using an external library for responsive iframes.

Grouping

If you have a group of related types that you would like to combine into a set, add the data-group attribute:

<a href="path/to/image_1.jpg" class="lightbox" data-group="vacation">
  <img src="path/to/thumbnail_1.jpg" alt="I am a caption">
</a>

<a href="path/to/image_2.jpg" class="lightbox" data-group="vacation">
  <img src="path/to/thumbnail_2.jpg" alt="I am a caption">
</a>

// ...

<a href="path/to/image_4.jpg" class="lightbox" data-group="birthday">
  <img src="path/to/thumbnail_4.jpg" alt="I am a caption">
</a>

// ...

Options

You can pass an object with custom options as an argument.

const tobii = new Tobii({
  captions: false
})

The following options are available:

Property	Type	Default	Description
selector	string	".lightbox"	All elements with this class triggers Tobii.
captions	bool	true	Display captions, if available.
captionsSelector	"self", "img"	"img"	Set the element where the caption is. Set it to "self" for the `a` tag itself.
captionAttribute	string	"alt"	Get the caption from given attribute.
captionText	function	null	Custom callback which returns the caption text for the current element. The first argument of the callback is the element. If set, `captionsSelector` and `captionAttribute` are ignored.
nav	bool, "auto"	"auto"	Display navigation buttons. "auto" hides buttons on touch-enabled devices.
navText	string	["inline svg", "inline svg"]	Text or HTML for the navigation buttons.
navLabel	string	["Previous", "Next"]	ARIA label for screen readers.
close	bool	true	Display close button.
closeText	string	"inline svg"	Text or HTML for the close button.
closeLabel	string	"Close"	ARIA label for screen readers.
loadingIndicatorLabel	string	"Image loading"	ARIA label for screen readers.
counter	bool	true	Display current image index.
keyboard	bool	true	Allow keyboard navigation.
zoom	bool	true	Display zoom icon.
zoomText	string	"inline svg"	Text or HTML for the zoom icon.
docClose	bool	true	Click outside to close Tobii.
swipeClose	bool	true	Swipe up to close Tobii.
draggable	bool	true	Use dragging and touch swiping.
threshold	number	100	Touch and mouse dragging threshold (in px).
autoplayVideo	bool	false	Videos will automatically start playing as soon as they can do so without stopping to finish loading the data.

Data attributes

You can also use data attributes to customize HTML elements.

<a href="path/to/image.jpg" class="lightbox" data-group="custom-group">
  Open image.
</a>

The following options are available:

Property	Description
data-type	Sets media type. Possible values: `html`,`iframe`,`youtube`.
data-id	Required for youtube media type.
data-target	Can be used to set target for "iframe" and "html" types.
data-group	Set custom group
data-width	Set container width for iframe or youtube types.
data-height	Set container height for iframe or youtube types.
data-controls	Indicates whether the video player controls are displayed: 0 do not display and 1 display controls in the player.
data-allow	Allows to set allow attribute on iframes.
data-srcset	Allows to have Responsive image or retina images
data-zoom	Allows to enable or disable zoom icon. Values: "true" or "false"

API

Function	Description
`open(index)`	Open Tobii. Optional `index` (Integer), zero-based index of the slide to open.
`select(index)`	Select a slide with `index` (Integer), zero-based index of the slide to select.
`previous()`	Select the previous slide.
`next()`	Select the next slide.
`selectGroup(value)`	Select a group with `value` (string), name of the group to select.
`close()`	Close Tobii.
`add(element)`	Add `element` (DOM element).
`remove(element)`	Remove `element` (DOM element).
`isOpen()`	Check if Tobii is open.
`slidesIndex()`	Return the current slide index.
`slidesCount()`	Return the current number of slides.
`currentGroup()`	Return the current group name.
`reset()`	Reset Tobii.
`destroy()`	Destroy Tobii.

Events

Bind events with the .on() and .off() methods.

const tobii = new Tobii()

const listener = function listener () {
  console.log('eventName happened')
}

// bind event listener
tobii.on(eventName, listener)

// unbind event listener
tobii.off(eventName, listener)

eventName	Description
`open`	Triggered after Tobii has been opened.
`close`	Triggered after Tobii has been closed.
`previous`	Triggered after the previous slide is selected.
`next`	Triggered after the next slide is selected.

Browser support

Tobii supports the following browser (all the latest versions):

Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer 11
Edge
Safari

Build instructions

See Wiki > Build instructions

Contributing

Open an issue or a pull request to suggest changes or additions
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License

Tobii is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

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Features

Get Tobii

Download

Package managers

Usage

Media types

Image

Inline-HTML

Iframe

Optional attributes

YouTube

Optional attributes

Grouping

Options

Data attributes

API

Events

Browser support

Build instructions

Contributing

License