DEAD

This project does not work with current mkdocs / markdown versions and has no active development anymore. Please take a look at https://github.com/Blueswen/mkdocs-glightbox which is a good replacement.

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Featherlight Plugin for MkDocs

Simple lightbox plugin for MkDocs. This plugin use the jQuery plugin featherlight and is mostly based on the work of https://github.com/mementum/lightgallery-markdown

Markdown usage

This plugin simply converts all images into lightboxes

![Alt title](image.jpg)

Setup

pip3 install -e git+https://github.com/it-novum/mkdocs-featherlight.git

Alternative setup

git clone https://github.com/it-novum/mkdocs-featherlight.git
cd mkdocs-featherlight/
python3 setup.py install

Usage with MkDocs

extra_javascript:
  - vendor/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
  - vendor/featherlight-v.1.7.14/release/featherlight.min.js

extra_css:
  - vendor/featherlight-v.1.7.14/release/featherlight.min.css

markdown_extensions:
    - featherlight

Javascript dependencies

You have to download the latest versions of jQuery and featherlight manually or via a package manager like npm or yarn

Make sure to set the right paths in mkdocs.yml

Support for Light and Dark theme

In case you are using Material for MkDocs you can add support for light and dark mode by adding the following CSS to your extra_css files in mkdocs.yml

[data-md-color-scheme="slate"] .featherlight .featherlight-content {
    background: #2e303e;
}

[data-md-color-scheme="slate"] .featherlight .featherlight-close-icon {
    background: rgba(255,255,255,.3);
    color: #fff;
}

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 it-novum GmbH

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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SOFTWARE.