On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Lukas Renggli <renggli@gmail.com> wrote:

The point is that the light-box does not use Javascript (AJAX) to get
it displayed, so it will generate the HTML either way. JavaScript is
only used afterwards to get the dialog centered in the middle of the
page and have the background dimmed. I haven't seen a lightbox yet
that can do this cross-browser only using CSS.

How would a lightbox get displayed without using js?

You have to do something to get the lightbox to display,

that something requires javascript to happen.