a lightbox with hyperscript.

just a box that can appear over the other content.

var lightbox = require('hyperlightbox')
var lb = lightbox()


//make sure it's in the DOM.
document.body.appendChild(lb)


//pass it an element to show.

lb.show(h('h1', 'hello world'))

//later, close it. this will remove the element shown, also.
lb.close()

you'll need to apply css to make in appear over the other content. there are two ways I've found that work well.

with the full screen approach, we can attach the lightbox to the DOM anywhere.

.lightbox {
  position: fixed;
  left: 0px;
  right: 0px;
  top: 0px;
  bottom: 0px;
}

to make the lightbox not take up the full screen, but only to go over some local context, we can put it inside a position: relative div.

h('div.content',
  h('div.relative', lb), //add light box in with content.
  h('h1', 'blah blah blah...')
)

and then apply position relative to the container.

.relative {
  position: relative;
  height: 0px;
}

by also setting height to zero, the lightbox will show over the other content. (the height sets the size of the container div, which the lightbox itself overflows)

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