Serving images with JavaScript on a website

Question

I'm trying to find different ways to serve images on a web site.

The most straight forward is obviously to use the <img> tag.

What other methods exist?

I like the way images are served here:

When a user clicks on the image, a larger version is presented and the surrounding screen darkens. There are also 'next image' and 'previous image' buttons in the top corners of the image.

Does anyone know how it is done and where I can find out more?

Answer 1

It is called Lightbox generally, there are many alternatives.

Answer 2

A couple examples of lightboxes using jQuery are:

• http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/
• http://fancybox.net/

Answer 3

it's also called modal window and here is some