How to make this lightbox page effect

Question

How can I make this lightbox effect that they use on this website http://www.usatoday.com that when you click on a thumbnail the page loads in with that lightbox pop-over the content effect.

But the thing is it's not just a simple lightbox plugin because the link changes into the post link in the address bar.

I've looked around and all I could find are these: http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/ and http://fancybox.net/ but they are not really what I am looking for, since I really need the link to change in the address bar.

If anybody knows of a simple way to achieve this, please help me out :)

Thanks

Answer 1

This may be helpful for creating light box using jquery. http://www.tonylea.com/2011/how-to-create-your-own-jquery-lightbox/