How does hulu do the "lower the lights"??

how do they do that? a certain gateway uses it too, but i want it to darken everything except for the media, like hulu.

How do they do that? :/

im guessing probably javascript/mootools or similar ill have a look at the code for you... it might be actually custom code, take a look at the different types of lightbox styles there are avaiable, i believe there are about 10 different versions you can apply...

if you looking to implement a lightbox effect that comes on as a background, you will have to setup div layers... your highest div layer would include your video

but the lightbox effect for the lights can be easily assigned to a button and would need to be displayed at least one layer below your video...

hope that makes sense...

the results from this search should point you in the right way...


if your using joomla i can give you a handfull of plugins that do something similar for you with both images and video...

Really into wordpress right now though! Can you point me to really useful plugins and theme dir's? I've been thinking of messing with it, why not?

will take a look and see what that query turns up, thank you.

sorry im not familiar with wordpress so cant recommend one but just do a lightbox wordpress search in google...

I believe they are using a javascript and a semi-transparent GIF. They just overlay the whole page with the semi-transparent GIF.

I sure would also like to know how to this. Can anyone confirm what they did on the page?

khan0 said:

I believe they are using a javascript and a semi-transparent GIF. They just overlay the whole page with the semi-transparent GIF.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what they do. I do that in Flash sometimes.