This little snippet is being posted because of extreme frustration in trying to find the answer for how to close a fancybox window with a link or button. Hopefully this little tid-bit will help you out.
How to close Fancybox from an Iframe:
<button onclick=”parent.jQuery.fancybox.close();”>Close</button>
And it will look like this:
or for a textual link:
<a href=”#” onclick=”parent.jQuery.fancybox.close();”>Close</a>
And it will look like this:
or for a textual link:
<a href=”#” onclick=”parent.jQuery.fancybox.close();”>Close</a>


Thanks for this!!! Looked all over.
Thanks! Very helpful!
You saved my day! Thank you very much!
Man, it only took me two hours to find this. Thanks for posting this!
Me too. Thank bro.
Thank you for this information, it really help me a lot. ^_^
Thanks a lot!!