Quarto lightbox figures for HTML and Revealjs

Ramblings

• Just learned Quarto can turn images into lightbox figures (click to enlarge) in HTML outputs like HTML documents and Revealjs slides. Docs: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-lightbox-figures.html

Understanding

• A UI element that is an image which when cliked pops out hte image zoomed in in a nmodal is called a Lightbox 
• Ref and example:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbox_(JavaScript)
• This feature has two parts
  • 1. the thumbnail image shown on your page (trigger)
  • 2. the modal that pops up (inlcude the dim abckground) with closable button
• Quarto makes this available for HTML outputs?
  • https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/html-lightbox-figures.html

Appendix A - Related tidbits to follow up on