I would like to use a lightbox to display my forms, i have used

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Asked: June 13, 20262026-06-13T14:31:10+00:00 2026-06-13T14:31:10+00:00

I would like to use a lightbox to display my forms, i have used

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I would like to use a lightbox to display my forms, i have used Fancybox and was not successful. I would like some advice on the best lightbox plugin to use to achieve this and how would i need to set this up since my form request will go thru the Controller first.

Updated:

This form work fine without the lightbox. The Controller is working when i click on the link it just takes me to the page and doesn’t display the form in the lightbox.

Code:

<%@ include file="/WEB-INF/jsp/include.jsp" %>
<%@taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

  <head>
    <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js"></script> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.9.0/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" />
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.9.0/jquery-ui.js"></script>


    <script type="text/javascript">
            <%@ include file="../js/lightbox/jquery.fancybox.pack.js"%>

    </script>


    <style>
            <%@ include file="../js/lightbox/jquery.fancybox.css" %>

    </style>    

  <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {

            $(".fancybox").fancybox();
        });
    </script>


  <title><fmt:message key="title"/></title>



  </head>
  <body>
    <h1><fmt:message key="heading"/></h1>
    <p><fmt:message key="greeting"/></p>


    <a href="<c:url value="login.htm"/>">Login</a></br>



    <a href="<c:url value="officer_registration.htm"/>">Register</a></br>


    <a class="fancybox" href="officer_registration.htm">Light Box Registration</a></br>
    <a class="fancybox" href="http://en.gtwallpaper.com/fondecran/chiens/chiens_01.jpg" >dog</a>


   </body>
</html>

UPDATED CODE

<%@ include file="/WEB-INF/jsp/include.jsp" %>
<%@taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

  <head>
    <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js"></script> 

    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>



    <script type="text/javascript">
            <%@ include file="../js/lightbox/jquery.fancybox.pack.js"%>

    </script>


    <style>
            <%@ include file="../js/lightbox/jquery.fancybox.css" %>

    </style>    

  <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {

            $('#regForm').click(function() {
                $.fancybox({
                        'href' : '/officer_registration.htm'
                    });

                return false;
            });

            $('#pic').click(function() {
                $.fancybox({
                        'href' : 'http://en.gtwallpaper.com/fondecran/chiens/chiens_01.jpg'
                    });

                return false;
            });

        });
    </script>


  <title><fmt:message key="title"/></title>



  </head>
  <body>
    <h1><fmt:message key="heading"/></h1>
    <p><fmt:message key="greeting"/></p>


    <!--  <a href="<c:url value="login.htm"/>">Login</a></br> -->   
    <!-- <a href="<c:url value="officer_registration.htm"/>">Register</a></br>  -->

    <!-- <a class="fancybox" href="login.htm">Light Box login</a></br>  -->

    <a id="regForm" class="fancybox" href="officer_registration.htm">Light Box Registration</a></br>

    <!-- <a id ="pic" class="fancybox" href="http://en.gtwallpaper.com/fondecran/chiens/chiens_01.jpg" >dog</a>  This picture works presently-->


   </body>
</html>

EDITED HTML at runtime

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

  <head>
     <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min.js"></script> 

   <!--  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script> -->



    <script type="text/javascript">
            /*! fancyBox v2.1.2 fancyapps.com | fancyapps.com/fancybox/#license */


.......... 


    </script>


    <style>
            /*! fancyBox v2.1.2 fancyapps.com | fancyapps.com/fancybox/#license */
.fancybox-wrap,
.fancybox-skin,
.fancybox-outer,
.fancybox-inner,
.fancybox-image,
.fancybox-wrap iframe,
.fancybox-wrap object,
.fancybox-nav,
.fancybox-nav span,
.fancybox-tmp
{
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    border: 0;
    outline: none;
    vertical-align: top;
}

.fancybox-wrap {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    z-index: 8020;
}

.fancybox-skin {
    position: relative;
    background: #f9f9f9;
    color: #444;
    text-shadow: none;
    -webkit-border-radius: 4px;
       -moz-border-radius: 4px;
            border-radius: 4px;
}

.fancybox-opened {
    z-index: 8030;
}

.fancybox-opened .fancybox-skin {
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 10px 25px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
       -moz-box-shadow: 0 10px 25px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
            box-shadow: 0 10px 25px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
}

.fancybox-outer, .fancybox-inner {
    position: relative;
}

.fancybox-inner {
    overflow: hidden;
}

.fancybox-type-iframe .fancybox-inner {
    -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}

.fancybox-error {
    color: #444;
    font: 14px/20px "Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 15px;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

.fancybox-image, .fancybox-iframe {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
}

.fancybox-image {
    max-width: 100%;
    max-height: 100%;
}

#fancybox-loading, .fancybox-close, .fancybox-prev span, .fancybox-next span {
    background-image: url('fancybox_sprite.png');
}

#fancybox-loading {
    position: fixed;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    margin-top: -22px;
    margin-left: -22px;
    background-position: 0 -108px;
    opacity: 0.8;
    cursor: pointer;
    z-index: 8060;
}

#fancybox-loading div {
    width: 44px;
    height: 44px;
    background: url('fancybox_loading.gif') center center no-repeat;
}

.fancybox-close {
    position: absolute;
    top: -18px;
    right: -18px;
    width: 36px;
    height: 36px;
    cursor: pointer;
    z-index: 8040;
}

.fancybox-nav {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    width: 40%;
    height: 100%;
    cursor: pointer;
    text-decoration: none;
    background: transparent url('blank.gif'); /* helps IE */
    -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
    z-index: 8040;
}

.fancybox-prev {
    left: 0;
}

.fancybox-next {
    right: 0;
}

.fancybox-nav span {
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    width: 36px;
    height: 34px;
    margin-top: -18px;
    cursor: pointer;
    z-index: 8040;
    visibility: hidden;
}

.fancybox-prev span {
    left: 10px;
    background-position: 0 -36px;
}

.fancybox-next span {
    right: 10px;
    background-position: 0 -72px;
}

.fancybox-nav:hover span {
    visibility: visible;
}

.fancybox-tmp {
    position: absolute;
    top: -9999px;
    left: -9999px;
    visibility: hidden;
}

/* Overlay helper */

.fancybox-lock {
    overflow: hidden;
}

.fancybox-overlay {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    overflow: hidden;
    display: none;
    z-index: 8010;
    background: url('fancybox_overlay.png');
}

.fancybox-overlay-fixed {
    position: fixed;
    bottom: 0;
    right: 0;
}

.fancybox-lock .fancybox-overlay {
    overflow: auto;
    overflow-y: scroll;
}

/* Title helper */

.fancybox-title {
    visibility: hidden;
    font: normal 13px/20px "Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
    position: relative;
    text-shadow: none;
    z-index: 8050;
}

.fancybox-opened .fancybox-title {
    visibility: visible;
}

.fancybox-title-float-wrap {
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
    right: 50%;
    margin-bottom: -35px;
    z-index: 8050;
    text-align: center;
}

.fancybox-title-float-wrap .child {
    display: inline-block;
    margin-right: -100%;
    padding: 2px 20px;
    background: transparent; /* Fallback for web browsers that doesn't support RGBa */
    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
    -webkit-border-radius: 15px;
       -moz-border-radius: 15px;
            border-radius: 15px;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 2px #222;
    color: #FFF;
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 24px;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

.fancybox-title-outside-wrap {
    position: relative;
    margin-top: 10px;
    color: #fff;
}

.fancybox-title-inside-wrap {
    padding-top: 10px;
}

.fancybox-title-over-wrap {
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    color: #fff;
    padding: 10px;
    background: #000;
    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, .8);
}

    </style>    

  <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {

            $('#regForm').click(function() {
                $.fancybox({
                        'href' : '/officer_registration.htm'
                    });

                return false;
            });

            $('#pic').click(function() {
                $.fancybox({
                        'href' : 'http://en.gtwallpaper.com/fondecran/chiens/chiens_01.jpg'
                    });

                return false;
            });

        });
    </script>


  <title>Crime Track Application</title>



  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello :: Spring Application Test</h1>
    <p>Greetings Darindra Ramdhanie 4</p>


    <!--  <a href="login.htm">Login</a></br> -->    
    <!-- <a href="officer_registration.htm">Register</a></br>  -->

    <!-- <a class="fancybox" href="login.htm">Light Box login</a></br>  -->

    <a id="regForm" class="fancybox" href="officer_registration.htm">Light Box Registration</a></br>

    <!-- <a id ="pic" class="fancybox" href="http://en.gtwallpaper.com/fondecran/chiens/chiens_01.jpg" >dog</a>  This picture works presently-->


   </body>
</html>

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-13T14:31:12+00:00

Do you have the view/controller portion working without the lightbox? If not, get that working first. Then use the url that you’d use to call the form for displaying in the lightbox. I bet lightbox gives you an option of specifying a url for display. Also, is there an basic example of round trip interaction with php backend? Use that to extrapolated implementation in you spring app. I’d suggest get some code going and come back for more when you get stuck.

EDIT:
It does seem to support external urls, see #4 here
It will take ‘href’ as a parameter.

EDIT 2:

$('.fancybox').click(function() {
    $.fancybox({
            'href' : 'officer_registration.htm'
        });

    return false;
});

… not sure though if it needs an absolute url.

EDIT 3:

Per their examples the href that you try to call fancybox on, needs to tell it that outside content needs to be displayed in an iframe: class=”fancybox fancybox.iframe” in your case.

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