# Zoom cursor on lightbox image

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/zoom-cursor-on-lightbox-image/197925
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [July 22, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/zoom-cursor-on-lightbox-image/197925 "2021-07-22T21:53:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/zoom-cursor-on-lightbox-image/197925/1 "2021-07-22T21:53:07Z")

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Hello,

It is a very minor thing, maybe a good idea (maybe not) to add zoom in and zoom out cursor to lightbox image because the click function is changed. It would be more understandable to users what is the image click action. Thanks 🙂

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### Author: ![ganncamp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ganncamp/32/106199_2.png) [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/zoom-cursor-on-lightbox-image/197925/2 "2022-01-06T16:04:29Z")

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+1000 to add zoom controls to the lightbox for desktop browsers (i.e. when pinch & spread aren’t available.)

It’s fairly common to get screenshots I can’t read directly in the post

 ![Selection_1063](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/6/26d86076a86632d753b9c95ed8b24a1bf81a90c2.jpeg)

So then I click

 ![How the Below is a codesmell - Report a bug - False-positive - SonarSource Community - Google Chrome_001](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/6/260db8d2b56d8d2b2d92f86a79ada86a94ff6f32.jpeg)

and still can’t read them.

…until I manually resize the window to make it wider, which (finally) zooms the image. 😞

 ![Selection_1064](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/c/2c4acc195fdb96d2a9813c6d34c74b12537e868c.jpeg)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/zoom-cursor-on-lightbox-image/197925/3 "2022-01-17T20:30:56Z")

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Can we add this @awesomerobot ?

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### Author: ![ganncamp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ganncamp/32/106199_2.png) [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/zoom-cursor-on-lightbox-image/197925/5 "2022-05-23T17:56:11Z")

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This is working in our hosted instance. Thanks so much!