jQuery: How can I show an image popup onclick of the thumbnail?

I like prettyPhoto

prettyPhoto is a jQuery lightbox clone. Not only does it support images, it also support for videos, flash, YouTube, iframes and ajax. It’s a full blown media lightbox

There are a lot of jQuery plugins available for this

Thickbox

LightBox

FancyBox

FaceBox

NyroModal

PiroBox

Thickbox Examples

For a single image

1. Create a link element ()
2. Give the link a class attribute with a value of thickbox (class="thickbox")
3. Provide a path in the href attribute to an image file (.jpg .jpeg .png .gif .bmp)