Lightbox (Popup) Flipbook Examples
DearFlip, also known as dFlip, is an advanced JavaScript solution designed to showcase flipbooks seamlessly through interactive popup windows or lightboxes. These elegant, responsive lightboxes provide a polished, user-friendly method for displaying multiple flipbooks on a single page. With performance optimization at its core, dFlip ensures a smooth, uninterrupted experience, enhancing user engagement while maintaining high-speed performance across devices.
With dFlip integrated into lightboxes, users can easily explore a wide range of flipbooks by clicking on intuitive thumbnails or links to open various examples in a sleek popup window. This dynamic experience ensures lightning-fast load times and minimal memory usage, as flipbooks are only loaded when the user selects to view them. Below, you’ll find a collection of thumbnails and links, each offering a unique flipbook experience. Simply click on any of these to open the respective flipbook in a stunning lightbox, where the content is brought to life instantly, providing a seamless and engaging user experience.
Lightboxes are highly recommended for pages that showcase multiple flipbooks, offering a clean and interactive way to display content without compromising page performance. Depending on your design objectives, you can organize these flipbooks within a structured table layout for a sleek, professional look, or opt for eye-catching book cover thumbnails for a more visually engaging presentation. This approach ensures that the main content of the page remains fast and responsive while providing easy access to a wide variety of flipbooks. By improving both functionality and user experience, lightboxes help you create a seamless, efficient browsing experience for your audience.
Manuals (Thumbs-stretch)
The DIV mode is ideal for scenarios where all cover page images share the same size and aspect ratio. This mode automatically resizes images to fit a specified size, but if the images have varying dimensions, it may cause distortion. To maintain the intended design and visual consistency, it’s essential to ensure that the cover images are uniform in both size and aspect ratio. This helps avoid any visual inconsistencies and preserves the quality and appearance of your flipbook.
Catalogues (Thumbs autofit – PRO)
Thumb mode is perfect for situations where cover page images differ in size and aspect ratio. In this mode, each cover image automatically adjusts to the most appropriate ratio, ensuring a distortion-free and proportionate display. Unlike the Thumbs Stretch mode, which may stretch images to fit, Thumb mode preserves the integrity of the images and maintains their visual consistency. For a more polished and professional appearance, Thumb mode is the recommended choice, as it ensures high-quality display without compromising the aesthetic value of your flipbook.
Right to Left (RTL)
Some languages are read from right to left. By setting the Reading direction to RTL, the 3D flipbook will be displayed in a right-to-left (RTL) layout.
Buttons (PRO)
3D Flipbooks can be conveniently opened in popups using standard buttons, offering an excellent alternative when Embed or Thumb modes are not suitable for the page layout. Popups provide a space-efficient solution, as the flipbook only appears when the user clicks the designated button, keeping the page uncluttered and user-friendly. Additionally, this method supports extensive customization through custom CSS, allowing you to fine-tune both the button and popup’s appearance and behavior to align with your website’s overall design and functionality. This flexibility makes it easy to integrate flipbooks seamlessly into various layouts without compromising on visual appeal or user experience.
More Examples:
- PDF Flipbook with links and bookmarks: PDF files are handled really well by the plugin. All your links and bookmarks are automatically detected and displayed.
- Open Flipbook with Link: You can create a link to open the flipbook in the same page. These Links here all open a flipbook with respective feature.
- Open Book at certain page: Just add
data-page="4"to the HTML syntax and the flipbook will open at that certain page. 
Anything to open the flipbook: You can actually add any design content button inside the dflip shortcode and that will also trigger the flipbook.- Custom button: Buttons are great to open flipbook. And they too support any content or custom class from your theme.