How to make a jquery lightbox open multiple images from one link?

Question

Using a lightbox like ColorBox or jQuery Lightbox Plugin how can i make a single link which opens a gallery / array of images?

For example i have 1 thumbnail and when a

Answer 1

I might be misunderstanding, but I'm getting the impression you want to do more than the "grouped photo" style gallery that ColorBox offers. I'm not quite sure on the next/previous functionality you're describing, but my thought would be to write this functionality without ColorBox initially.

Add your viewing gallery to a normal div within the page. When you've setup the gallery and its behavior to your liking, you can call ColorBox inline on your div(showing your newly created control within the popup).