Make links open in lightbox (colorbox) a breeze

in your application.css

//= require colorbox-rails

in your application.js

//= require colorbox-rails

Then enable link to be displayed in colorbox by simply adding :colorbox => true attribute. E.g.

<%= link_to "My superb link", "#", :data => { :colorbox => true } %>

<a href=“#” data-colorbox=“true”>My superb link</a>

Add attributes inside the :data block

<%= link_to "My superb link", "#", :data => { :colorbox => true, :colorbox_height => '300px', :colorbox_width => '300px', :colorbox_iframe => true } %>

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