jQuery for Designers Beginner's Guide

Time for action – using a custom transition

Follow these steps to change the default transition between images:

1. For this example, we'll take a look at how to use the fade transition. Open your scripts.js file. All we have to do is pass the fade value for the transition key to the colorbox() method as follows:

   $(document).ready(function(){
          $('a[rel="ireland"]').colorbox({transition:'fade'});
   });

   Note that we've added some curly braces inside the parentheses. Inside these curly braces, we can pass in key/value pairs to customize different aspects of the Colorbox. In this case, the key is transition and the value is 'fade'.

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