• ion.zoom — easy image lightbox jQuery plugin for small galleries. Allow to zoom images at place.
• Supports keyboard controls with ESC, LEFT and RIGHT button.
• Supports multiple independently operating galleries in one page.
• Crossbrowser: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE(8.0+)
• Works on touch screen devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.).
• GitHub page.
• Ion.Zoom is freely distributed under terms of MIT licence.

• jQuery 1.9+

Import this libraries:

• jQuery
• ion.zoom.min.js

CSS:

• normalize.min.css - desirable if you have not yet connected one
• ion.zoom.css

Create gallery with group of links like this:

a href="link to big image" class="gallery_1"

Initialize gallery:

$(".gallery_1").ionZoom();

Or initialize gallery with custom settings:

$(".gallery_2").ionZoom({
    visibleControls: false                  // Disable visual controls
});

Close gallery:

$(".gallery_1").ionZoom("close");