Lightbox JS – update

Now with captions! I’ve also fixed a couple of minor issues involving extra-large images falling out of the viewport and a small gap in the overlay in Firefox. Also, it’s more keyboard friendly now. Thanks for all the comments and suggestions.

Grab the latest files here: Lightbox JS

Just a teaser, but per many requests for extended functionality, I am working on a complimentary ‘photo-gallery’ script. It will include forward/back navigation, preloading, and much more. Check back next week.

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  1. Thanks for the excellent script. One question, how could I put a link in the attributes? For example, link to another page or action.

     

  2. Tracey, Are you talking about a link below the enlarged image?

    We’re working on that right now (a close link as well as a ‘print this image’ link that will launch a different file w/ printing options attached).

    I’ll post when finished.

     

  3. Thanks, you are are Champion, i found this website this morning (Australian time) and it was pefect except that it didn’t have captions, i thought to myself, no biggy i will add captions to it… i come back this afternoon and a new feature has been added. THanks heaps, you have saved me alot of time making this same thing for myself!!!

     

  5. Awesome script!
    But I’ve got one issue—how can I get this work with image maps? My client’s website has ‘chunk’ images that need to have 4 or 5 links coming off each one. Right now, we’re just using image maps. We want to use your script, but can’t get it to work with them. It’s something with the “Rel=” not working on the link.

    Thanks for anyhelp!
    Ben

     

  6. I have a flash nav bar on my site, which doesn’t get ‘overlaid’ with the lightbox, does anymore have any suggestions to to overlay the flash window, i have already tried changing the z-index, no avail. Thanks in advance

     

  7. Awesome Script! Very nice and clean and functional.

    I have one question, is there a way to position the full size image on the page? Maybe within an exixting ?

    Thanks,

    Sean

     

  9. Hi there, nice script!!

    I have been trying to combine the moo.fx Opacity effect ( a superlightweight javascript effects library ) with this script and I can’t find the way to make it happen. … any help in this?

    this is my test page: http://dismorfofobico.com/test.html

     

  12. Very nice script indeed!

    Would it be possible to resize the images before display dynamically based on browser window width? I have many large images (of varying width) and I would like them to appear at about 70% of the browser width (with height set automatically, so as to preserve aspect ratio). I tried doing this with a few changes to the CSS and script, but I didn’t get very far.

     

  13. @Alberto Ortiz Flores:
    check out the onload events! put the onload events of moo.fx in the
    Lightbox.js file( at the bottom) and test from there? Dont know if it will work but this is often a problem with javascripts….

     

  14. well done !

    just a suggestion : if you add an iframe methode on your script it will allow us to pen a form, or any other page with the same effect ;)

    regards.

     

  15. Safari 1.2.3 (v125.9) displays the image top left so the loading graphic looks a bit funny. Do you think it’s possible to add a history marker, so pressing back takes you to the page with the photos, rarther than the page before the photos if you catch my drift.

     

  17. Used this script for the first time today, very nice and very quick to implement, good work sir!

    The only initial problem I found was that in IE, drop downs do not get overlaid and as mine was unfortunately in the middle of the page, it looked rather silly. Changing the z-index didn’t seem to make any difference so the only resolution I could think of was to hide all select boxes by putting in…

    var objSelects = document.getElementsByTagName(‘select’);
    for(var i=0;i

     

  20. Is it possible to hack this script for this :
    Zooming is available to all pictures : larger than specified manually and in a particular id (div or class).

    It will be very interresting in a weblog view. No more to resize picture in posts. If there are pictures in posts larger than what i’v specified then this javascript work.

    Thank you for your work :)

     

  21. This is a pretty slick script. It will definitely be handy in my next gallery.

    Anyone know if there’s a way to get this script to display an entire article instead of an image? I’m working on a site now where a feature like that would be pretty slick on. Just display the entire contents of the article in a div (even allowing links and images within the article) and have a close button at the top or bottom. That’s just my initial thinking. But I’m not sure how to do it.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

     

  23. Ross Coombes:

    Another way to overlay the form elements that seem to want to pop through the image is to change the “overlay” object in the code to an iframe and add a filter. It does nothing to how it renders in Firefox, but it makes a difference in IE 5.5+

    Here is what I did:

    I changed:
    var objOverlay = document.createElement(“div”);
    to:
    var objOverlay = document.createElement(“iframe”);

    and I added:
    objOverlay.style.filter=’progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(style=0,opacity=80)’;

    to the code within the lines where objOverlay is defined.

    The main difference is that Firefox still displays the dark image with 80% opacity, while IE uses a white screen with 80% opacity.

    Hope this helps.

     

  24. opera 7.54 keeps showing the animated loading gif even after he has loaded the big picture.

     

  26. This is cool :) But instead of showing a picture i want to show a small webpage popup. Is this possible ?

     

  28. I’d like to use this for a flash presentation or some other content, besides images, is it possible now or is it going to be possible some day?

     

  29. I found that you can add links if you put them within the ‘title’ value.
    eg title=”Cannon! Picture by some guy. Visit more here”

    then just style the links in the CSS how you want with #lightboxCaption a and #lightboxCaption a:hover

     

  30. I do love this script.. Although it doesn’t seem to work opera (7.53)

     

  31. I’ve implemented this script to rave reviews from my site’s visitors. I have links to higher resolution versions of my images as wel las EXIF data in the caption. Future plans are to hook this bit of JavaScript to an AJAX library to allow users to rate these images in the “popup” as well as hook it to some animation effects to fade the whole deal in. Job well done, Lokesh, but this is just the beginning of what’s possible for this script.

     

  32. On your example page, the top half of the caption cuts off (Firefox 1.5)

     

  33. first of all, thanks for this!

    I have a little problem with IE. I’ve downloaded your files and built a test case … in IE it doesn’t show me the “shadow”.

    First of all i don`t understand the usage of the blank.gif, can you tell me what is its use? I coudn’t find a blank.gif on your server too. Maybe you can give me a tip what i’m doing wrong …

    * html #overlay{
    background-color: #333;/*IE 5 win*/
    back\ground-color: transparent;/*IE 6*/
    background-image: url(blank.gif);/*IE 5 win*/
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=”overlay.png”, sizingMethod=”scale”); /*All IE ?*/
    }

    thanks in advance, uli

     

  36. I love the script, unfortunately I can’t use it anywhere until it is cross browser.. find the bugs and make it work. Thanks for your hard work.

     

  37. I am trying to get this to work on my blog. i use wordpress and it just won’t take it it seems.

     

  38. This is a very nice script, I love it and I am using it on my blog at current.

    One thing, I dont know alot about javascript; how could I get it to move the lightCaption div ABOVE the image? This is the only thing I really need to make this perfect, thanks.

     

  40. Great script!

    Anyway to add a onResize event handler to keept centred in a browser window?

    best of 2006 already!

    thanks,
    Andrew

     

  41. you might want to make your zIndex higher, or have them as user settings, as you’d want the overlay to cover all other dynamic html, such as tooltips and popdown menus.

     

  46. Brilliant Script! I’m completely loving it.

    With regards to the comment about the CSS being invalid: you can place this CSS inside IE conditional comments, which ensures the CSS remains valid while the script still works in IE.

    I’ve posted a quick and dirty tutorial about it over on my blog:

    CSS Valid Lightbox JS

    Thanks so much again for this script Lokesh!

     

  47. Excellent script, well done to you Lokesh.

    I’ve rewritten it a bit and turned it into a GreaseMonkey script for Flickr. I hope it proves useful to someone

    Flickrbox.

     

  48. Okay, I was able to get around the IE form problem by making my drop-down box invisible when the lightbox is up. I did this by first putting the box in a div labled “text2″

    then I added this code in the showLightbox function:
    var objForm = document.getElementById(‘text2′);

    This in imgPreload.onload function:
    objForm.style.display = ‘none’;

    And these two lines in the hideLightbox function:
    objForm = document.getElementById(‘text2′);
    objForm.style.display = ‘block’;

    this will make whatever is in the “text2″ div disappear when the lightbox image is open and show back up when it is closed. This may not have been the most eloquent way to do it, but it works.

     

  49. BTW Lokesh, I really like the script.

    The next thing I’d like to figure out is how to add navigation links in the maximized image. That way someone could go to the next or previous large picture without closing and clicking on another thumbnail.

     

  52. Hi!

    I stumbled over your site via styleboost.com and checked out your lightbox script, with is very stylish I must say.
    I have recently made a simple pictureviewer (http://www.robertvs.com/projects/pic_viewer) and am wondering if I can use some of your css for the darker background effect on my project.

    Anyway, cool stuff!

    /robertvs.com

     

  53. This is a super piece. It works great with generating albums. Thanks is not strong enough.

     

  54. woa i’m stunned. the script is really cool, why didn’t anybody do this before? besides: your website is utterly charming :)

     

  55. This is a great script, Very useful for portfolios too! Keep improving it, it’s getting better every day :-)

     

  56. Sorry about another comment, but I forgot to say:

    Please keep Opera Browser support in mind! :-)
    Thanks.

     

  58. Anyone having issues on getting this to work with sitemesh and JSP files?

     

  59. Kagou – There is no way to physically resize the actual image with Javascript. You can only make adjustments with the width and height attributes.

    Antonio – I’ve tested w/Opera 8.0 successfully.

    bpixel, Mark, Arthos, j – I’m working on it!

    Anthony Sangiuliano – Neat idea to use an iframe instead of a div to circumvent the form elements showing through the image in IE. The other solution as others have mentioned is to set the visibility to hidden for problem form elements.

    uli – If the shadow is not showing up, make sure the overlay.png is in the right spot.

    Roan Lavery – Nice work with the valid CSS.

    Gavin Montague – I love it! Flickrbox

     

  60. any way this could work with an image map?

    regardless, it kicks butt.

     

  61. Ah, I think the problem with the cut-off captions on your example page in firefox is because the image pushes itself down on the apge if it is too near the top and then goes over some of the text… when I’m scrolled all the way up it overrides some of the image text, when I scroll even the slightest bit down, I can see the captions great. I can get screenshots if you don’t see it.

     

  62. nice..i remember seeing this in most flash site
    anyway to do this in actionscript?

     

  63. Deliscious mate! Been looking for a neat gallery for a long time now and since I just don’t have the knowledge to start coding everything from scratch… -> bookmarked! ;)

     

  64. Brilliant script! Beautifully presented, coded and very simple to implement, thank you so much :)!

     

  66. This brings a tear to my eye its so lovely!

    Thanks for the hard work and free offering!

    Cheers.

     

  67. Fantastic! You should be working for a large company making amazing additions to their website. (If you aren’t already). I’m now using this on my website.

     

  68. Hi

    I’ve added textfilter support for this to the typo blogging software. Have a look at this post for more info.

    Thanks much! This is very nice.

    Lance

     

  69. I have nothing to say but what a great idea and the implementation is brilljant!

     

  70. For some reason, the image wouldn’t load over my flash header, meaning, the swf file was on top of the image, which was on top of the page like usual. What do I do to fix that? I’m sure it’s my bad.

    This is so awesome, btw!

     

  71. Very nice script. I think it’s interesting how it seems to spark the imagination, it’s tempting to ask about “feature X.” I will refrain though, posting it as you have is more than generous. I look forward to seeing where things go from here, thanks.

     

  72. Brilliant script, I love it I is verry impressed, but… I’m trying to implament it on one of my web sites. And it works perfectly… in Opera 8.01 only. In every other browser I have tried it in it just opens the image in a new page, i.e. the script isn’t used and the image opens like it does by default if you link to another image.

    I’m trying to get it working on this site: http://www.photography.xvi32.net/gallery.htm

    Note if you check it in IE the PNGs don’t work… yet.

    The strange thing is that everyone elses implamentation of Lightbox JS works in all browsers. Why am I special? I don’t want to be special, I want to be normal like everyone else.

    I’d love to get this script working proprly as it’s the best thing I have found in a long time.

    Cheers

     

  73. Brilliant script!, saw in on digg a few days back, and now it’s on my blog….

    Can’t wait for new features!!

    Thanks for the great script!!

     

  74. Hi, I found your brilliant script on digg a few days ago and worked on implementing it on my new website.

    Just one thing I was wondering about is the possibility to make the enlarged image resize to fit the viewers screen automaticly.

    could this feature be added easely by myself? or is it something you might add in next versions?

    All help welcome :)
    And thanks again for the great script!

     

  75. Great script! I made one minor change you might be interested in… I wanted the code to work differently for people who can’t use it. I have a gallery and if people dont have javascript, I want to send people to a differnet URL that creates an HTML page, rather than display the jpg image directly (as required by your code). What I did was add another attribute to the line called “LIMG” (for Lightbox Image)… and I kept the HREF the way it use to be.

    In your javascript, I added:

    anchor.setAttribute(“href”,anchor.getAttribute(“limg”));

    Inside the loop at the top of “initLightbox”… basically, if your code excutes, it copies “limg” over “href”…. if your code does not execute, the browser ignores limg and loads the default href. Seems to work great so far!

     

  77. Excellent script! Eight tentacles up :) Thank you for sharing.

     

  79. Love this script! Kudos!

    I do have one minor problem. I use iframes and would like image to be viewablein the parent frame, not the iframe itself. Can this be done?

    Thanks in advance!

     

  81. Excellent script! Very glad I came across it.

    I seem to be having the same problem with iframes, however.

    I have a site that has images in an iframe within another page. The lightbox will draw in the iframe, and not on the containing page. Is there a workaround for this?

     

  82. Again, I too am having difficulty with WordPress- it won’t print the javascript onclick functions…

    Is there a way to manually enter them?

     

  84. Hey there!
    Thx for releasing this nice script. It seeams to me there is still a little bug. If you have no loadingImage this here will not work:
    Img: objLoadingImage has no properties
    line: 193

    I just did a little ‘if’ and it worked again!

    Cheers!

     

  85. Lokesh

    Just wanted to say thanks for a cracking script – looking forward to the gallery additions!

    Thanks also to Chris of Alien in London for the pointers of where to have each of the files for a Wordress installation.

    The script really does make a difference to a blog dedicated to imagery hosted elsewhere as it stops users disappearing to other sites.

    Thanks again!

     

  86. first off: thanks a lot LOKESH, it looks perfect- but you know that!

    besides the lightbox.js i have to load another .js which handles full crossbrowser png transparency for img and css-background images.

    maybe you can spot on first sight why those two .js’s interfer with each other, but i cant.

    http://beachlevel/wp-content/themes/beachlevel/js/lightbox.js
    http://beachlevel/wp-content/themes/beachlevel/js/pngiefix.js

    maybe you could incorporate the one into the other, because lightbox needs the png alphaimageloader fix anyways…

    would be glad to hear from you :)

     

  89. Andreas, FYI: sorry, but i dont see any nvigation at all using latest safari

     

  92. Hi Lokesh

    This is a great little script thankyou for making it available for free it really is quite commendable! One small prolem is we cant seemto change the colour of the caption through the stylesheet (well I cant anyways). I can change it by putting a tag in the caption but I thikn you should really be able to do it via the stylesheet or am I missing something?

    I like my large images to have a black border with a ligh grey text :-)

    Thanks again

    Peter

     

  93. This script is great. Just downloaded the new update from 1/15. There is still an issue with small gap in the overlay in Firefox with the large images. I can’t fix it! Also, the pictures don’t align the same. Some align at the top of page, some align with the middle of the page, some the bottom. The overlay problem could be resolved if all the large images aligned at the top of the page. All in all, this is the best picture script out there. Thank you for offering it.

     

  96. @ #89 Anonymous

    first: thanks for the feedback :) and sorry – this was only a short proof of concept – I tested it in IE6 and FF 1.5 on my Windows machine. I have no Mac yet – so I just cant test it on Safarie. Have you gone left and right beside the Image with the mouse? There should apear some “arrows” to indicate the navigation…

     

  97. When a picture is clicked on my website the “loading.gif” comes up but the bigger picture never loads….anyone know what the problem may be?

     

  99. I found out what was making the script work in IE & FF on my web site. It was the image swapping code that was causing lightbox to stop working. If I remove the code then it works, you can see it working here without the code and with out the puddy rollover effect:

    http://www.photography.xvi32.net/gallery.html

    But as soon as i put the code in to get the image swapping working for the menu the script decides not to work. You can see the rollovers in the menu work but not lightbox here:

    http://www.photography.xvi32.net/gallery2.html

    So my question is how do I get both the image rollovers and lightbox to play nice together?

     

  100. P.S. It works perfectly in Opera 8.01, but I spose thats because Opera is a real web browser ;)

     

  101. Hi, James (#99 and #100)

    >So my question is how do I get both the image rollovers and lightbox to play nice together?

    My script works in your case.

    http://serennz.cool.ne.jp/sb/sp/lightbox/

    When you use Lightbox JS, you can add following code at the end of lightbox.js.

    ==== additional code from here ====
    addLoadEvent(function() { MM_preloadImages(‘/images/menu01.1home.png’,'/images/menu02.1gallery.png’,'/images/menu03.1about.png’) } );
    ==== end of additional code ====

    And also it is not necessary to set onload handler at your tag.

    Regards,
    Takkyun

    — here from original code —
    — end of original code —

     

  102. Chhers Takkyun! It works great (it’s nearly perfect!) now, thanks so much.

    One thing, it’s no biggie just something that I noticed, I’m not sure if it’s a bug or not because it happens in every browser I have stested it in (Opera, IE, FF). When the loading.gif is loaded it’s always displayed (sometimes streched out of shape) on the far right in the middle of the screen. Whats the cause of this, and how can it be fixed?

    Cheers,
    James

     

  103. Hi James,

    >on the far right in the middle of the screen

    I’ve checked it.

    Your style.css (text-align at #Content) causes it.
    You can fix because of chaging your lightbox.css as follows.

    #overlay {
    text-align: left;
    background-image: url(overlay.png);
    }

    yes, just add “text-align: left;” for #overlay.

    Regards,
    takkyun

     

  104. Hi – lovely script.

    Only problem I’m having is that if you’re not using a mouse, once you’ve got to the big image you need to tab through all the links on the page to get back to the big image before pressing Enter and returning to the main page.

    Also, once back on the main page I can’t seem to “go anywhere” using the tab button without first clicking the mouse on the page. Is there a way to get round this?

     

  105. Thanks Takkyun, thanks for your help and support it’s really appreciated.

    I still cant get over how xool the script is, I absolutly love it. You and Lokesh should be verry happy and pround your scripts it seems are a huge sucsess and well done because they are great scripts and deserve to be sucsessfull :)

     

  106. There are a issue in the overlay that happens in most browsers. Is not the big thing but I can’t get fixed:
    1.) Restore the Windows where you are looking Lighbox and open a picture clicking in it.
    2.) Maximixe the window and take a look at the botton of page: you see that te overlat.png has not grown till the end of page…
    Are there some technique to fix this?
    Anyway is a great script… thx!

     

  107. Sorry … in the comment #116 the secuence is wrong: First open the picture with the browser window maximixed and then restore the window without close the picture so you can see at the bottom the efect mencioned.

     

  109. If you resize the /browser/ window from larger to smaller, the document recalculates its height (ie, it becomes taller, but narrower). Your Lightbox JS does not accomodate this; the document breaks out from under your overlay.

     

  111. It would be nice to have a fade-in and fade-out effect when the overlay appears: something very fast, ie 1 second… just to have a transition between tehe page and its “dark version”…
    Ciao from Italy
    Nicola

     

  113. Nice work, but is there a setting to keep the image fixed in the center of the screen even though you scroll?

     

  114. Great Script. is there a way to open the popup when the small images are in an imagemap?

     

  115. Nice script, I’m going to use this on our new site! One thing though, the image popus don’t center correctly when there is a scrollbar involved, could there be a solution for this problem? Can js know whether there is a scrollbar or not?

     

  116. This is great, I’ve used it on my site.

    One thing I noticed is if the target image (the large image) is an animated gif, the image will reappear after closing. The gif frames are still cycling in the background and when it gets back to frame 1, the image pops up again. Either selecting another image real quick or clicking the back button kills it.

    Also, it seems the loading.gif is displayed at a fixed size. Where can I change this if I want to use another loading image? Or better yet, allow the image to be displayed in it’s native size, rather than making the script resize it.

     

  117. Found another bug:

    when not using a closing image, the code just doesn’t work. I tried specifying a random image and it also didn’t work, so maybe it has to be an exact size too? Taking out the code around line ~320:

    // preload and create close button image
    var imgPreloadCloseButton = new Image();

    // if close button image found,
    imgPreloadCloseButton.onload=function(){

    var objCloseButton = document.createElement(“img”);
    objCloseButton.src = closeButton;
    objCloseButton.setAttribute(‘id’,'closeButton’);
    objCloseButton.style.position = ‘absolute’;
    objCloseButton.style.zIndex = ’200′;
    objCloseButton.style.top = ’5px’;
    objCloseButton.style.right = ’5px’;
    objLink.appendChild(objCloseButton);

    return false;
    }

    imgPreloadCloseButton.src = closeButton;

    will get it to work.

     

  118. Yea, I noticed that Adam.

    I just set a transparent gif as the button & that worked fine.

     

  119. I’m not the first one to tell you: it’s brilliant!

    I’ve been trying this before, but you made it a lot easier. No more popups!

     

  120. Thankyou! This script is wonderful and integrates nicely into my blog :).

    I appreciate your time and i’ve bookmarked this site to check back later for updates!

    Any chance you can have a mailing list or “subscribe to this thread” idea.

    Cheers

     

  121. I was worrying about the accessibility issues with non-mouse users as I had some difficulty retaining focus on the big image and then once returned to the main page in FF it was impossible to tab anywhere.

    I mentioned this on a forum and a forum member was able to come up with a solution to enable smooth keyboard use too – have a look at the thread to see the solution:

    http://www.csscreator.com/css-forum/sutra79112.html#79112

     

  122. I have made a version of lightbox with next/previous buttons. Take a look:
    http://www.basementmedia.no/blogg.php?id=292

    My trick is to make two javascript-arrays with all the addresses and captions and get lightbox.js to fetch the information from there in addition to have it in the ‘href’ and ‘title’ attributes.

    My modified lightbox.js:
    http://www.basementmedia.no/mms/lightbox.js

    I addition to the two arrays (one for image addresses, “ImagesArray”, and one for captions, “CaptionsArray”), you need to write the link (a href) code like this:

    a href=’http://www.a.com/a03.jpg’ rel=’lightbox’ title=’A cool image.’ imageNumber=’3′ imageMax=’11′

    imageNumber is the number of the current image you want to open (first image is ’0′, second is ’1′). imageMax is the number of images in the gallery.

     

  123. Hi,

    What would need to be changed to use the title attribute o fthe image, not the link, as teh caption?

    I want to use this script but my boss wants the title attribute in the image, not the link. Any suggestions?

     

  124. Great script!
    I didn’t really have a use for it to display pictures, but I was able to tweak it so that I could display editable fields to a user without having then have to go to a new page or open a popup window. It works fantastic with some extra javascript and a dash of AJAX goodness!

     

  125. Looks Fantastic

    But I can’t get it to work in my simple example ;-( Anyone help?

    Is there more to do than DL the files, throw them into the images folder and then do steps 1 & 2?

    I get no overlay or image. If I include the lightbox.css I get the overlay, but still no image!

     

  128. I found a solution.
    around line 196 of lightbox.js, I changed

    objLoadingImage.style.display = ‘none’;
    to

    if (objLoadingImage) {
    objLoadingImage.style.display = ‘none’;
    }

    And everything seems to work fine (except that I still cannot find close button)

     

  130. LOVE this script. it’s made my photo page for my newborn son 100 times better! Thanks so much, and keep up the great work. I’ll be checking back often!

     

  131. this is an awesome script. i’m having problems with it in safari and explorer though. It works great in firefox but in the other two browsers when I click my pic it just opens the linked file.

     

  132. this is cool! never knew javascript can do such superb stuff.

    anybody know why it didn’t work for my IE 6? it opens the link file in a new blank page.

     

  133. Hi

    very nice – has a problem if there is already onLoad code in the BODY tag – fails to work

    What does it write to preload images?

     

  134. I had to include the lightbox.js after the BODY tag, otherwise it didn’t detect my existing onload function.

     

  136. #120 Chestah
    RSS feed!

    #121 HellsBells
    I’ve just finished adding a keypress action for closing the Lightbox.

     

  137. Lokesh,

    As if you haven’t heard it enough… smooth work ;)

    What is needed to display a .swf or .mov in the lightbox overlay space instead of a still image format?

     

  138. a very elegant solution to the pop-up window problem/annoyance.

    i changed it to use the rev tag for the caption. that way i could put html in the tag and ff or ie won’t display everything in the title/tool tip pop-up

    thanks.

     

  139. Hi,
    great job!
    But I found a little bug: (browser: firefox 1.5 and IE 6) when you try close image by pressing key other than defined (e.g. space instead ‘x’) then image is hidden but page still exists in overlay mode. I hope it will be fixed in next release.

    greeting from Poland
    eMPa

     

  140. TO EVERYONE USING IMAGE-MAPS

    You CAN use them, and it IS an easy fix.

    In the lightbox.js file, find the line:
    var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(“a”)
    and change it to
    var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(“area”)

    then place “rel=lightbox” in all your area tags for the map
    needless to say, you’ll need a seperate .js file if you want to still maintain “normal” functionality

     

  141. #138 JC
    Can you elaborate? I’m rather slow with this stuff. Perhaps an example or a link to your implementation. Your change is just what I need. Thanks in advance.

     

  142. Hi,

    nice script !!!

    I have a question : is it possible insted of that “hit X to close” one can have hit any key to close ?

    Thanks !

    K

     

  143. Great Script…..Is anyone else experiencing a problem in IE with the script the ‘first’ time it is loaded. It never seems to work the first time, but then when I try again in IE, it works perfectly. When I close the window, start again, same thing…..problem only on the first thumbnail I click. After that, smoothe sailing. If someone else has experienced this, please let me know how you fixed it.

    dreamweaver8484 at yahoo dot com

     

  144. #143 ND –

    I believe the problem is when you have a page that is not fully loaded. For example, I have several “albums” with 100+ thumbnails that need to load… when I’m not patient, the effect does not happen. When I am — and all elements of the page have loaded, then the script does work. I have no idea why, but I notice this on *every* browser.

     

  145. #144 Jason
    Thanks for the response. What happens is the picture loads the old fashioned way, without the lightbox effect. I have to click the back button to make it work the second time. I don’t think it is the page not loading…..thanks anyways.

     

  146. I don’t think you understood my explanation, as the problem you describe is exactly what I too get and why… Try going to any page of thumbnails you have, and instead of clicking on one right away, wait … let’s be extreme… wait 3 full minutes. Then try clicking one of your thumbnails. I bet it works the first time.

    J

     

  148. Thanks Jason….I will give it a try and wait a few more seconds. If you are correct, then it should not be a problem since visitors will read through my site first, giving plenty of load time. Thanks.

     

  149. It doesn’t work under Opera. Actually it’s not that it never works, it doesn’t work every time.
    It is stuck under Opera, the loading gif stays on top, and the real picture is nowhere.
    If I close down the loading gif, (or refresh the page) and click again, the real picture comes in instantly.

    I think the error is in preloading images.(maybe if its in multiple div-s or whatever)
    Does anyone have some advice?

     

  151. MightyDuck #149
    I just tested it in Opera, and had the same problem.
    ND

     

  153. The keypress doesn’t close the overlay PNG in safari (2.0), only mouse click does that.

     

  154. Nicely done sir! A great bit of JS.

    I have only question; Is there a way to stop a vertical page scroll bar appearing when the window is displayed?

     

  155. Elegant is the word! I have begun implementing this lovely script on a site I am currently building. I did get the it to work fairly easily, but when I went to add a Javascript drop down menu in Dreamweaver (*blush), nothing worked… well.. I did get it to work a little, but pretty soon the code was a horrific mess. What can I say? I don’t know how to do it yet. ;-p

    I’ve spent two or three days working on this, and finally have come back here to ask…: Is anyone on this lovely blog willing to show/demo/tell those of us who are code illiterate just how to implement this sweet script along with a simple drop down menu that works off a sliced image? Gosh that would sure be great! I’d also love to add an image rollover script too… haha. Would this be possible?

    thanks Lokesh!

     

  156. So like, I think I found a “bug”… It doesn’t overlay flash! :/

     

  157. sorry for the commentspam and sorry for the flash-thingy, I was too damned lazy to search this iste for “flash” :D

     

  158. Whenever I try loading my page in IE, it gives me this error:

    Line:218
    Char:3
    Code:0
    Error:’navigator.PRXappVersion’ is null or not an object

    I try everyone else’s script and their implementation seems to work fine. Anyone experienced this error?

     

  159. Lokesh

    Love the script it has given my site a better look and feel, but I have problem with I.E.

    My site works fine within firefox but not I.E., the page with the image on it has the image in a nested table and this works fine in firefox producing the desired effect, but in i.e. all it does is just link to the image it doesnt even put the image as an overlay, i know its a long shot without seeing the html but can you think of any reason for this or a way round it.

    Regards

    Glen

     

  160. can you tell me, how add google adsense code below the enlarged image?

    thanks, :)

     

  161. Thanks for lightbox!
    It really is a great tool and can improve the usability of your website a lot. I use it on my website which is mainly about the Python programming language. See how I use it here:
    http://www.serpia.org/spe
    please add a comment if you like!
    thanks,
    Dimitri

     

  162. Love the new close button feature, what i would like to do with this script is to be able to change it from displaying an img to displaying an iframe where i can put a flash animation or a page of html whatever. But to still also do the image thing too, i expect to have to add in extra attributes and the like.

    My skills in javascript are really up to speed, i have tried changing…

    var objImage = document.createElement(“img”);

    –to–

    var objImage = document.createElement(“iframe”);

    and adding in extra attributes etc

    i have also tried changing the…

    var objLightbox = document.createElement(“div”);

    –to–

    var objLightbox = document.createElement(“iframe”);

    but to no effect.

    Does anyone have any suggestions, or something that can point me in the right direction

    Regards,
    Andy

     

  163. Hi,
    Very nice improvements in this version, great work!

    About Opera:
    -Works a treat in 8.01 on Mac OS X.
    -Works a treat in Opera 8.51 on Linux (Ubuntu flavour).
    -Very buggy in Opera 7.54 Windows XP, just displaying the overlay and loading img if present. Works sometimes on single image in a page, but refuses to work on another page with exactly similar markup. Go figure…
    -Works a treat with Opera 8.51 on Windows XP.

    Other browsers:
    - Icab 3.0.0 close with “x” on keyboard doesn’t work but all the rest is fine.

    It is definitely a great cross-browser script :-)
    Keep on the good work…

     

  164. Regarding IMAGE MAPS and Jason Buechler solution….

    1 problem, there is no rel attribute in the area tag… so instead, use alt=”lightbox”

    Here is the process again:

    In the lightbox.js file, find the line:
    var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(?a?)
    and change it to
    var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(?area?)

    then, find:
    (“rel”) == “lightbox”)
    and change it to
    (“alt”) == “lightbox”)

    This will validate as XHTML

     

  165. Forgot to mention that in Icab 3.0.0, the image is not centered in the viewport once launched. Apart from this nothing else to report.

     

  166. Can anyone help?

    I amusing large images with my lightbox script. Does anyone know a way to program this so when you click onto the larger image to return to the thumbnail, it goes ‘exactly’ where you originally clicked the thumbnail.

    This allows for easier navigation. Any help would be apprecitated.

     

  167. Hello,

    When turning zlib.output_compression On (htaccess), the script doesn’t load the image anymore. Is that possible or am i just freaking here?

     

  169. @yoeri(#167) hmmm … that can?t be, cause on my new gallerysite i use the compression and everything works fine in every browser, except opera 7.x, there is just the loading gif.

     

  171. ….Just a reminder, Jason and I are discussing the imagemap mod for lightbox. Specifically the misuse of the attribute rel on an area tag.

    Just because it works, don’t mean its right. ;-)

     

  174. To all you CSS junkies ;)

    position:fixed; seems to work fine in every browser but IE. Was hoping someone could shed some light on this for me and suggest a good, and relatively easy fix. I have seen the jerky scroll java thing, def don’t want to go there, not a good solution. Any other good workarounds?

     

  176. Ryan you have quite a mess of styles in the head section of your page, try merging all of your CSS into one file.

    This is a really cool script THANKS Lokesh

     

  177. i have an other problem when using lightbox js in IE. loading everythink works fine but when clicking inside of the picture in order to close it and return to the normal website not the wrong page is loaded (base site instead of subsite) … when clicking outside of the picture everythink works fine

    the problem occurs on http://www.webfeeling.at/neu/content_management/ when clicking on one of the three thumbs (site is still under construction)

     

  178. @Klaus (#169) : http://www.stvv.com/image/tid/44

    Tis one works fine (it’s lightbox plus, but tested on lightbox too, same result). But when I activate zlib.compression, the thing keeps loading…no picture is showed.

    tnx in advance, tnx for the great script, our users love it!

     

  179. New to this gorgeous little script but had to drop by to congratulate you on a great job. I have a feeling I may use this for more than one project!! Awesome!

     

  180. Lightbox JS is great. I have been playing around with it for a few days now. Like others i see, I am not the only one having problems with the iframes(getting the image to open on the main window and not within the frame).

    Does anyone now how to do this? Did somoeone solve this issues and I missed it in the comemnts posted already?

    None the less, still a great tool to have.

    -regards

     

  181. About the flash issue (isn’t a problem with lightbox, is an old welknown flash/browsers bug) here you can find a solution that works like a charm.

    http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/printthread.php?t=158317

    Basically is adding “transparent” property to your flash and set the z-property as you like.

    WONDERFUL WORK DUDE !!

    You made the designer I’m working with the most happy man in this world… and you helped me to change the image I had of been a programmer without any taste for esthetics.

    Thanks again,

    Marc.

     

  182. Has anyone been able to extend the dark background on IE? If the page of images causes a scrollbar to appear, and if I scroll down, and click on a picture, the dark background doesn’t fill all the way.

     

  183. Eli #182
    Yeah, that happens to me as well. The problem was only fixed in FF, but not IE. This seems to happen with the larger images. I am hoping there is a fix for that as well

     

  184. Can you separate the JS and CSS entirely?
    Modifying it is quite a hell, no offence.

    Opera (8.5) isn’t fully supported, even in your example page the transparent “shadow” doesn’t fully cover the page area (@bottom).

    Under caption and kbd divs (you should use instead) is lots of empty space. What’s the deal?

    Could you develop also sucha lite-version, which pops up only the image and assign it an id (#lightImg for example)? The html should contain only the closing anchor surrounding the bigger image (no shadows, captions, texts, close buttons, etc). Code:

    Othewise… great idea!
    Thanks!

     

  185. hmm, censor deleted HTML elements…

    - you should use *paragraph* instead

     

  186. Great little add on script.

    Took all of 2mins to try it out and apart from putting the images/js in different directories and havinvg to change a few references. very easy to use. And the results are very pleasing. Going to try the lightbox gone wild version later to add navigation wile looking at the large pictures.

    http://galleries.captured4ever.co.uk/Galleries.aspx – drill into demo users albums to get to images.

     

  187. Firefox adds height on the div where caption/keyb/etc is compared to Safari/opera/exploder.. just so you know :)

     

  188. Lokesh, could you take a look at the Opera bug, that some of us mentioned?

     

  189. First off, excellent script. I am ‘looking’ for places to use this.

    How hard would it be to add the same click event to the picture border that causes the detail to disappear?

    If I click on the image or the background, the detail pic disappears (as expected). In contrast, if I click on the border of the image, nothing happens. Although small, it is likely that the user may click the picture border and be slightly confused.

    Thanks, this is the only point that I could see that could use improvement.

     

  190. Has anyone been able to extend the dark background on IE? If the page of images causes a scrollbar to appear, and if I scroll down, and click on a picture, the dark background doesn?t fill all the way. It was fixed in FF, but the problem still exists. Does any smart person out there know how to fix it?

     

  191. I have a small modification for lightbox.js so you don’t have to mess with the IE opacity problem and seems to work cross browser. I found it at http://www.mandarindesign.com/opacityblending.html.

    Instead of the settings for #overlay, substitute:
    #overlay {
    background:#000000;
    width:100%;
    filter:alpha(opacity=90); /* for IE */
    -moz-opacity:.90; /* for FF and Moz */
    opacity:.90; /*CSS2 that works in Safarit */
    }

    I haven’t tested Opera, but there is probably a workaround for that too.

     

  192. Jeff #191
    Thank you for your post. I tried what you posted, but it did not seem to work for me. Could you explain exactly what you did. I put the script in the css instead of the original, but the problem still existed. I was wondering if I did something wrong. Thanks in advance.

     

  193. #184 EmmSii – I’ve noted the small space uncovered by the overlay in Opera, thanks for letting me know.

    #188 MightyDuck and others – Relating to the PC Opera 7.54 issue, the problem has to do with the proper event not firing when an image is done loading. I’m sure there are ways around this, but I will let it go as it has been fixed in Opera 8.0+. Just looking forward at the moment. : )

    #191 Jeff – The transparency code you posted is a beat more compact but it doesn’t seem to work in Opera 8.0.

     

  194. One quick question, has anyone had any success with adding a image hover state such as an overlaid PNG with copyright symbol. You usually see these on photographers websites to do what can be done to prevent casual image theft.

     

  195. Overlaying a copyright watermark with a hover state wouldn’t prevent image theft.
    You’d be better off looking at server side solutions to actually embed the watermark dynamically into the image.
    Easier still, just add the watermark in an image editor before you upload it.

    If the watermark is overlaid in, for example, a div then the image itself isn’t altered. A right click, image save or quick look at the source code will still save the unwatermarked image.

     

  196. Nathan, for an overlaid copyright symbol:
    Point var closeButton = in the lightbox.js file to your copyright image.
    Edit #closeButton in the lightbox.css to bring it over the image, larger positive values brings it further inside the image area.

    Make sure #lightbox img has no background-color, or is set to transparent, if using a transparent gif or png.

     

  198. @#197:
    hi kjell,

    im quite sure your link to the javascript is wrong.

    your source:

    just try:

    or with an absolute path:

     

  199. aarrgh … why cant i just copy and paste?

    sorry kjell,
    what i want to say is: delete the “../” in the path to the javascript, or make it an absolute path. im sure it will work then.

    regards, klaus

     

  200. Re: 198,199
    Thanks Klaus!

    I have tried all versions of paths, and still no result! :-(

    I am getting frustrated!

     

  201. All the other javascript at my website messed with the Lightboxscript. Finding an other way to show rollover-effect.

    Case closed :-)

     

  202. Can anyone tell me how to add links to the caption or in the caption area?

     

  203. I can’t seem to get the caption to show up with the border. It only shows as the text over the overlay png, which doesn’t look very good because both are dark colored.

    any help would be greatly appreciated
    website
    email

     

  204. does anyone know if there is a way to have it autopop an image from a link.
    so like if i have a page of images and i want to send someone a link to the page but have it auto pop up the image in the lightbox.
    ie
    http://www.domain.com/index.php?IMG_01.jpg

    or something to that affect.
    so it takes them to the page of images and auto shows them that image large.

     

  205. ***Mouse Hover Copyright Overlay ***

    Ok, this is a client side solution using CSS, so as Pete pointed out, it won’t prevent anyone who has a reasonable knowledge of the web and who is desperate to steal an image, instead it’s just a casual ‘reminder’ that an image is copyrighted. Thought I’d link it in in case anyone else has a similar requirement. :)

    URL: http://nathanpitman.com/journal/447/

     

  206. #203 Colin – remove the misc. html code that ended up in the top of your css file

    Also, big thanks to all those who addressed and troubleshooted other comment author’s issues.

     

  207. lokesh, i just want to thank you soo much for this amazing piece of code!

    i use it on my new photo-site and it works great.
    see it in action: http://lellesch.com/

    regards, klaus

     

  208. Lokesh, this is a great script; I use it on a new website. Just one suggestion. If CSS is turned of (because someone is surfing with an old browser or with a screen-reader) and JavaScript is turned on, then the loading-image and the “lick-to-close”-text will apear just at the top of the page. Maybe it would be possible to load the loading image via CSS-background?

    Regard
    Mazso

     

  210. Your script is great. Can’t wait for the gallery script and print this image features.

    I notice sometimes though when you close an image and you return to the page the photos are on, the text on the page is sometimes all jumbled up. What causes this and is there a work around for it. Thanks again.

     

  213. Hi Lokesh
    First of all thanks so much for a brilliant utility – c’est magnifique!
    I have been experiencing some problems with positioning of images using lightbox js on a dynamic gallery I have created for a friend. In IE 6 photos sometimes randomly position themselves on the page once opened/clicked on. Is this something anyone else has come across/experienced?
    The url for the site is http://www.ryanmcgoverne.co.uk/
    Thanks again for a fantastic piece of code,

    Cole

     

  214. I am having a problem using the lightbox. I have placed all the images and code for the .css and .js correctly but it seems as though it is not reading the .js file. When you click on the photo it just opens a new window as if you just had a direct link to the picture only. what is the problem or what do i need to switch. i cant figure it out.
    please help
    Thanks

    Ian

     

  215. Check out the post at #91 on Slidebox. I’m using it at
    http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/o/solidgolddancers/
    Works great. Thanks Lokesh and Olivier, it’s a great combination. I did paste the Slidebox mod (to the original Lightbox) and the Lightbox update together to get the best of both worlds.

     

  216. Hi all, the js is fantastic, but i wouldn’t open an image in my lightbox.
    J’d like to open an swf file, how can do that? Is it possible? Anyone has an example of it?
    Thank you all.

     

  217. I have one small problem. Everything is working well. I’m using an imagemap and I’ve made the changes to the lightbox.js file to facilitate this with no problem as outlined above. Works just fine.

    The only problem I’m having is, using the title tag for the caption, I don’t like the caption appearing when I rollover the small image. Is there a way to just have the caption appear just with the larger “popup” images?

    I noticed that enzbang in comment #91 created a javascript to call an external xml file. I altered his js file to allow me to use an imagemap and then created an xml file but it’s not working (I just get the larger image on a new page, not as an overlay).

     

  218. I’ve been playing around with this great script, and I really like it, however, I’m not sure it will work with my website because my images are in an iframe and I need the lightbox to open in the parent window.

    I see from the comments above that others are having the same issue, has anyone found a way to workaround the issue?

    Sean

     

  219. top job, what a beautiful way to display full size images. Thank You.

     

  220. For anyone having problems using this script from inside a Iframe, I have found a solution. It may not be the best solution, I’m a relative novice at this stuff, but it seems to work ok.

    Insert the script calls into the header of the PARENT html file.
    In the Iframe HTML, change the href of your link to javascript:Void(0) and add an onclick call to a function function(this). Also create a form with a hidden form field with a value = to what the href of your link originally was.

    In the parent file create 2 functions that does the following.

    Function cloneObject(what) {
    for (i in what) {
    this(i) = What(i);

    }
    }
    rename the function below to the same as the onclink function in your link…
    Function function(obj) {
    var newobj = new cloneObject(obj);
    var iframe = document.getElementById(“iframename”); this has to be the name of your iframe.
    var iframedoc = iframe.document;
    var iframeForm = iframedoc.getElementById(“formname); this has to be the name of your form.
    var hrefvalue = iframeForm.hiddenfieldname.value; this has to be the name of your hidden field.

    newObj.href = hrefValue
    showLightbox(newobj);
    }

    I had to remove a section of the lightbox.js file that didn’t like dealing with a copy of the link rather than the link itself.

    The problem code was this:
    if(objLink.getAttribute(‘title’)){
    objCaption.style.display = ‘block’;
    //objCaption.style.width = imgPreload.width + ‘px’;
    objCaption.innerHTML = objLink.getAttribute(‘title’);
    } else {
    objCaption.style.display = ‘none’;
    }

    Removing it didn’t seem to have a negative effect on the script.

    There is probably a more elegant way to approach this, but my skills are not quite up to the task.

    Sean

     

  221. #220 Sean K.- Thanks for addressing the frames issue.

    Also, I’ve added some basic troubleshooting tips on the main Lightbox page that might help a couple of you:

     

  222. hi hi …
    i want to say that u have a bug.. on that lightshow…
    if u loaded a picture and u close it then if u click on the other page
    while it’s loading u close it and if u click on the pic that is clicked before (the already loaded picture) and if the other loading picture loaded he will replace
    the already loaded picture.
    in other words

    image 100% loaded—>click on image2 0% loaded —> close the image2 0% —> click on image 100% loaded —> image replaced to image2 because image2 loaded 100%.

    i think that’s a bug doesn’t it?

     

  223. Would love a copy of the iframe supported JS as well as modded iframe doc. I have read Seans post but have been unable to get it to work due to some details that were left out of his description.

    Thanks

     

  224. Yeah, i’ve read over the post like 10 times and i’ve been unable to successfully run it.

     

  225. Hey nice script well done, only problem I have is the loading pic not show, only if you link to a pic that dont exist will only the loading pic display?

    Any ideas

     

  227. Sorry about that I have been up all night and am punchy. As I was saying I use Dreamwever and only go into the code when necessary. I have not been able to get this lightbox to work. I am a novice at the coding part. Can anyone help me? On a new page, I got the image to pop up in the middle but not gray out the bkg. When I moved the code to an existing page that uses templates, It only opened the image in a new window – the close button was gone and so was the caption.
    Can anyone help?

     

  229. great script! love it…
    but I have a little problem with firefox:
    when you click on the first picture of the gallery, everything’s fine. when you click on the second picture, the first picture is being loaded for about half a second (you can see it) before the correct picture comes up.

    where’s the problem?
    see for yourself: http://thomashavlik.net/fotos

    thanks for your help!

     

  231. This script is great- it works really well with my new site integrating with a database and ColdFusion. With CF generating all the images, captions and URLS and lightbox making it all look good (and user friendly) it’s made light work out of an otherwise massive task.

    The only thing I couldn’t get to work is to open the URL in in the title caption in a new window in Firefox, but it does in IE. I guess that’s a browser thing. Maybe I can fiddle with the code to generate the URL in the same manner as ‘press x to close’ rather than putting it in the title? Has anyone done that?

     

  232. I’m having trouble getting lightbox to work in IE when displaying pictures with foreign caracthers. Since the project I’m working on is a danish projekt there really is no way around the use of the problematic caracthers.

    Have a look at the development site and click on “klik her for at zoome” to see the bug. The picture simply doesn’t load. The problem is with IE only.

    Any pointers? thanks

     

  233. I love this script – it’s working like a charm for images. However, I am having trouble getting it to work with a flash movie…I read the postings above on how to fix (changing the transparency and the z-index)…but I’m wondering if someone could spell it out for those of us too thick to figure it out…

    Does someone have some sample working code for embedding a flash object? Thanks in advance.

     

  236. This is nice and works well for me and my application in FF; but, I am experiencing strange behavior in IE. Everything appears to work as it should; but, instead of stopping when the lighboxed image is displayed, very quickly therafter a new page is displayed with just the image. I’d be happy to try and explain myself better if necessary.
    The link that is clicked to display the lighboxed image is in a Google Map infowindow (using Google Map API V1).
    I have tried moving the script around to various places without success.

     

  237. i love it, it’s great. But I am having a problem with it working when using AJAX to dynamically load the gallery sections which use Lightbox.

    You can see what I am doing at:
    http://www.pauldonnelly.com/portfolio/index.html
    and go to the portfolio section and click on a thumbnail

    (don’t mind the other issues with the page, it’s a work in progress)

    Any help with this would be awesome, because I’m stuck.

     

  240. Could anyone please share the js for the iframe problem?

    Thanks!

     

  241. Seems like some people had some problems impementing my modication for lightbox in an iFrame. I just spent a good portion of today figuring out how to get the same functionality in Lightbox 2.0. So, I’m going to put the updated information there. I’ve also fixed the issue with my fix not working in Firefox, which may have been the issue some people were having.

    Sean

     

  242. tried all the tips about getting the background to fill the whole window when using large horizontal images and the scrollbar appears but without any luck. tried both ie and ff on a pc. any new ideas how to solve the problem?

    besides that its a really great script. just what i been looking for. gone are the days with ugly popups…

     

  243. Hi,

    great script and easy to use. I have one problem though.

    I am using frames at my webpage. The problem is that lightbox opens up in a frame that is quite small, and because of this it does not show the whole picture.

    What I want to do (if it is possible) is open up the lightbox window as a overlay of the whole page, meaning that even though my frame is 600px lightbox will use the whole screen.

    Is this possible? Or any other ideas?

     

    • Hi Jimmy,
      I have same problem. have u salved this problem, please tell me a solution if you solved this one.

      I am using 2 frames in my web page. In 1 frame, i am opening a lightbox for image but it will take first frame portion for overlay. It should take a whole screen for overlay.

      please help me dear.

      thanks

       

  244. Hi there.

    This script is excellent and I love it much so.

    Are there any other ways of calling it other than rel=”lightbox” ?

    The reason being I wish to call the script from a flash file, I can’t use rel=”" in flash.

    Is there anyway I can call the javascript command like this:

    javascript:lightbox(“http://www.google.co.uk/image.jpg”, variable);

    ?

     

  245. Can some body please help with getting my close image and loading image to display. The images are at the same level as the js file is and they still won’t display when i can the pathto where they are in the js file. if you need to see my webpage it is here
    Http://www.freewebs.net/gobock/gallery.html

     

  246. Great script here. Thanks.

    Just need to know how to put the next and previous feature in.

    Anyone?

     

  247. I am trying to include an imagemap as well as standard links on the same page. I have tried using Jason Buechler’s method but I can only get one or the other to work.

    Is this possible?

     

  248. Talguy (#245)

    I have the same problem. the close image and loading image are not displaying. area is still clickable for close image. prev and next images loading fine. i’ve waded through the code as best i can but can’t find anything askew…

    also clicking outside the lightbox doesn’t return to the page.

    anyone else got any thought on this?

    webpage here if anyone wants to check.
    http://davidandjacob.com/art/media/pics/

    btw, i love this script. thanks for all the hard work.

     

  249. Thank you for the great script.

    I worked this night on the problem of showing images from a thumbnail iframe. In the nutshell, the script needs reference parent elements and properties instead of iframe’s. Here is a sample I put together:

    http://tlpro.com/misc/lb_test/index.htm

    The altered script (with some customizations not important to the functionality) is here:

    http://tlpro.com/misc/lb_test/lb/lightbox.js

    Also, lightbox.css needs to be referenced in parent document instead of iframe, whereas JavaScript file is referenced in iframe page.

    This solution is not universal. It only goes one level up to the parent page; if you have nested iframes, this won’t work, but it should suffice for majority of cases. You can improve it with “nested level” variable (or something similar) that helps you navigate DOM hierarchy all the way up to the correct parent. It’s an overkill for my application, so I decided not to bother. :)

    For some reason, overlay.png doesn’t load in Firefox. It works in my application, but it doesn’t in this sample. Oh well, if you find how to cure this issue, I’ll gladly do it.

     

  250. #248 shortly , both loading and close images on your site work for me. Try loading your page with Ctrl-F5 or Ctrl-R to make sure you grab the latest versions of Javascript and CSS files and not use old ones from browser cache.

     

  251. #245 Talguy, you probably just need to play with slashes and dots in your Lightbox Javascript file to find the right path to loading.gif and closelabel.gif.

     

  252. Is there a way to prevent the links from doing anything until the page is loaded? This way, if the page isn’t fully loaded yet, clicking the links doesn’t just display the image, which is really bad behavior.

     

  253. #252 John, you can put a transparent layer on top of the entire page. Make its z-index equal to 0. This way people will be clicking on this layer, but they won’t be able to click on any objects behind it. After page loads, delete or hide this layer in body onload event.

     

  255. >#252 John
    >April 11, 2006 @ 1:55 pm

    >Is there a way to prevent the links from doing anything until the page is >loaded? This way, if the page isn’t fully loaded yet, clicking the links >doesn’t just display the image, which is really bad behavior.

    Check out slidebox at http://olivier.ramonat.free.fr/slidebox/
    Enclose the links in a /div with class=slidebox. It hides the div with js, then makes it visible after lightbox inits.

    On my site I just hide my /div in the css, then make it visible calling a simpler function after the lightbox init. So my links stay hidden for users wjth javascript turned off. The function used by slidebox won’t hide the links for non-js browsers, since it takes js to hide them. Choose your preference.
    http://bellsouthpwp.net/s/o/solidgolddancers/

     

  257. Thank you Lokesh! Very cool.

    Two issues I’m running into:
    Is anyone else running into the issue where html select “drop downs” appear on top of the lighbox image under IE 6.0.29?? Also, under FF 1.5.0.1 the overlay is not showing up.

    All works fine under IE 7.0.5926 Beta 2…which I must say I can’t believe given M$FTs track record. Very refreshing :)

     

  258. Okay, I read all of the comments from the top and almost have it working fine under FF 1.5, IE 6.0.29 and IE 7 Beta 2. By using what Anthony (#23 above) and Jeff (#191) suggested I now have the overlay working in FF and on top of the “drop downs” in IE 6.0.29.

    The only issue yet to be resolved is that the overlay under IE 6.0.29 and IE 7 Beta 2 does not strech horizontally all of the way across the screen. It stops about 90% across. I’m sure it’s a css conflict on my part so I’ll keep choaking down M&M’s and Mountain Dew until I figure it out.

    Thanks all for the posts they helped a bunch!

     

  259. Hi there! I’m using this fantastic script but… it doesn’t work correctly for some of my galleries and I don’t know why (uh…). I tried everything, re-uploaded the archives, deleting them and uploading again, revised the html and css codes but nothing works as it should. It seems that the “big” images are not in the server but they are! Too many thumbnails? Maybe. But feel free to check the codes and the galleries so you can find what’s going on because I am out of ideas…

    • http://anouke.spymac.com/diari/fotografies/familia/index.html -> works perfectly
    • http://anouke.spymac.com/diari/fotografies/muntanya/index.html -> some of them work
    • http://anouke.spymac.com/diari/fotografies/art/index.html -> none of them work
    • http://anouke.spymac.com/diari/fotografies/cels/index.html
    • http://anouke.spymac.com/diari/fotografies/macros/index.html

    Really thank you all and sorry if it was posted before… u.u

     

  260. Hello,

    At first i want to thank you for your great scrip! It’s very nice!!!

    I’m not from england so excuse me if my english is bad.

    I used your script and i want to give you a link It’s an art page for my mother in law, its still under constuction. I think your script is great for using it here.

    http://members.home.nl/dgmelchers/index_schilderijen.htm

    you see i work with frames! At your right you see a picture of kill bill (it’s only a example).

    If you click now on that kill bill image your script is loaded in that frame. “If it’s possible??? i want to load it to the whole index (an overlap of the whole screen) and not only in that frame.

    Is that possible?

    Hope to hear from anybody soon and many thanx!!

    Regards,

    Dave Brummer
    Holland

     

  261. Damn.. i want to load a .swf file instead of picture.. tried set object type to match flash.. nothing works :((

     

  262. Is there a way to have both functionality with image map and regular link?

    I tried jason’s solution in post #140 but it can only work one way or the other.

    Thanks

     

  263. anyone figure out a way to integrate LB with some iFrames… the above solutions are only have done up there (the first doesn’t quote the right sections of the main JS file to be edited and the second is missing the end to where the main JS file should stop being edited)

    if anyones got a completed workaround… please let me know…

     

  264. Fantastic script. Well done. I used the intial Lightbox script on my site and was actually started on grouping the images to create a gallary navigation, but this is much better.

    I have placed a transparent layer over the thumnails while the page is loading to restrict users from clicking the images. When page is loaded the layer is removed. Not sure if it is the best solution to the issue but allows visitors to see the tumbnails directly!

     

  265. Hi,

    I think this is great. But i have one issue on the iframe thing.
    I have set it up on a long iframe page. When i click the picture i does not
    calculate the rigt place to position the picture.

    Is there a easy way to get it to place it on the right place on the screen.
    So it’s not nessesary to scroll up the page to see the picture.

    Even if the pictures are placed sequentionel down a long iframe??

    Everything else works perfect.

     

  266. I found a script so you can have lightbox implementation on both imagemap and regular link.

    basically it’s a tweak version of getElementsByTagName

    This solution is in addition to Jason’s solution for imagemap issue.

    You can find the script @ http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/getElementsByTagNames.html

    I hope you find it useful.

    Thanks for the great script, lokesh!

     

  267. Sexy dude, sexy. Everything’s working great for me. I’ve added the image map to is. that was pretty easy, I figured that one out myself. I’m trying to do two things now.

    1) I’d like it so I can make the close buttom come to the right side instead of dropping down from the bottom. Is this possible?

    2) how can I possition the images with respect to it’s image size. In my case the image is opening in an iframe, so if it tries to be placed in the middle, half of the image will be hidden by everything else. Instead I want something like this:

    (Width_of_iframe – Width_of_image )/2

    And that should place the image in the center of my iframe. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks a lot!

    -gw

     

  268. oh, One more thing. what do I need to change so the user can click anywhere and it closes the picture? Thanks

    -gw

     

  269. Hi,

    I got the script working for lightbox. I can’t seem to figure out how to make the text “caption” black. It always keeps showing up as white and therefore blends with the white border. Any help????? I have tried adding font color=black or whatever. Help please!!

     

  270. this is a really kewl script.

    I have a quick question. I know you can put a link in the title, however, is there a way to have it open up in a new window?

    I tried using target=”blank” but that didn’t work or maybe I put it in the wrong place.

    can someone help me?

    thanks,

     

  272. Hello.
    Where do I adjust the opacity levels of the black area?

    When I change the values in “overlay” in the “lightbox.css” file, I don’t see any difference.

    Please can someone help me out?

     

  273. Great work on this script! I was using the original Lightbox and I am very excited about this new version. I have it up and running and the effects are working great. The only issue that I have is that the lightBox element is displaying across the entire width of the screen, not just to the propper padding amount around the image. It does only extend the proper amount above and below, forming a horizonal stripe the height of image. Has anyone else run into this? I have it happening in both Safari and FF(mac). I have not been able to try it on any Windows browsers or IE yet, however, the example Lightbox 2.0 stuff does display properly in the same browsers.

    Thanks!
    Leslie

     

  274. I would like to open a html page instead of an image. When I change the target to relfect that it doesn’t work. I downloaded a version of lightbox 1 where it was possible. Can someone tell me what I need to do to get lightbox able to open html pages rather than only images?

     

  275. Quick question similar to some others. I have a site where the gallery I’m using is in an Iframe. When I use the Lightbox v1 the large image shows up in the Iframe but not the whole parent page. The large images are much bigger than the Iframe’s dimensions so it looks horrible. I try to do target=”_parent” but it doesn’t work. Can anyone help puhleez?

    Thanks – Kevin

     

  276. Nevermind. I saw #228 and tried that. Actually is alot more convenient anyhow. :)

     

  277. For those that can’t afford to ditch their iframes this appears to be a completely workable solution.

    ## START CODE
    if(self != top) {
    top.myLightbox.start(imageLink);
    return;
    }
    ## END CODE

    Add that at the top of the start() function in the Lightbox class. I’ve tried it in Firefox, Opera and the unmentionable Microsoft browser and it seems to work fine. I’ll be implementing it in a few days, so ‘ll know soon whether it really is working for all our members.

     

  278. I am using Lightbox in pop up window.Its showing fine.
    When i closing the Pop up ,parent window is not working.can any one help?

     

  279. First of all, great script and donation on the way once client approves it :)

    I am trying to implement the script to a site, it works well in other browser except IE 6 where the ‘prev and ‘next’ buttons are not showing up.

    http://new.spotlightonthesquare.com/cuisine.html
    I looked at the lightbox css file and the only selector I can associate the probelm with is the

    #prevLink, #nextLink{

    width: 49%;
    height: 100%;
    background: transparent url(common_images/blank.gif) no-repeat; /* Trick IE into showing hover */
    display: block;
    }

    thought it’s a z-index issue so I added the following elements:
    position: relative;
    z-index: 900;

    still not working, however I did another test page by removing my main style sheet and the ‘prev’/'next’ buttons showing up just fine.
    http://temp.spotlightonthesquare.com/cuisine.html

    I have a hunch it’s z-index issue but cannot pinpoint it.

    Any thought?

    Thank you!

    tee

     

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  288. Just wanted to say a big ‘thank you’ to Lokesh for so nice ang elegant LightBox!

     

  289. #249 Oleg
    Oleg, you solved a problem with LightBox and iframe, which other people could not solve.
    Thank you very much.

     

  290. So is there any way to call this script automatically (without clicking on an image)? I would really like the first image in a gallery to pop up as soon as you load the page. There’s gotta be a way…

     

  291. OK I got this to start automatically when the page loads. Basically I added a simple get object function to the end of the script and then added the start function to the onload code. So the end of my lightbox.js now looks like this:

    function getObject(objectId){

    if(document.getElementById && document.getElementById(objectId)){
    return document.getElementById(objectId);
    }
    else if (document.all && document.all(objectId)){
    return document.all(objectId);
    }
    else if (document.layers && document.layers[objectId]){
    return document.layers[objectId];
    }
    else {
    return false;
    }
    }

    function initLightbox() { myLightbox = new Lightbox();var startImg=getObject(‘img0′);myLightbox.start(startImg);return false; }
    Event.observe(window, ‘load’, initLightbox, false);

    I also had to add “id=img0″ to my first link (a) tag, which I’m doing using PHP.

    This is a work in progress, but so far it seems to work in both IE6 and Firefox for Windows…

     

  293. the script rocks.
    but I seem not to get it work…

    Locally everything works perfectly fine
    but when i upload it to the server, i just get the normal way: the image opens without effects.

    i tried dreamhost and mediatemple. both the same problem….
    i am stuck.

    tx.

     

  296. @ ine
    Make sure all the images have loaded first. I’ve found that if you click a link/thumbnail while images are still loading it’ll just open the image in a new window.

    It may be a completely different problem but might as well try. Took me a bit to realize everything had to load first.

    And, if anyone knows of a preloading script that actually works with this I would love you if you linked me to it. Every one I’ve tried thus far doesn’t want to work.

     

  297. WOW!

    what a fantastic script!

    I made it work almost perfect now for my personal portfolio, I only have 1 problem. (and yes I searched for an answer in these comments)

    IE works fine, only Firefox opens the pictures in a new page.. I tried the onLoad=”initLightbox()” quickfix, but unfortunately it doesn’t fix my problem..

    Is there another fix instead of the “quick” one?

     

  298. Did Oleg fixed the iframe problem?

    Can he Show iframes in the lightbox v2.02?

     

  299. I saw this function on someone’s site and I knew I had to utilize it! Amazing work !!!!

    Unfortunately i only understand the very basics to css coding, and i am one of the dumbfounded ones who can’t get “it” to work on her page… can someone help? I looked around at others who’ve posted and I cannot find the mistake! please, someone, help?! =]

    the site is: http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~peachy_cheeks/demo2/mmmdesign.html

    thank yooooooou!
    connie

     

  300. I just upgraded to the 2.02 version and everything works great. In fact, it works a lot better than the first version. The only problem I have is that the loading.gif file stays on top of my images. The images will load and the whitebox resizes and the loading.gif appears, but it stays on top of the loaded image.

    Any ideas?

     

  302. I found the fix for my problem mention in #300. The solution was in the recent thread on this site. Basically, I already had a “loading” ID tag in my page and it was conflicting the “loading” ID for the lightbox. I just changed the ID tag in the lightbox.js and css files to “loadinglb” and everything works great.

    Thanks!

     

  303. I have updated to the new version, and it works great in FF. Although it doesnt work in IE at all. Two things happen, if im opening a single pic it shows it loading, but then opens in a new page. And if i click on a group image it just opens in a new window. What do i need to do to fix this and get it to work both in IE and FF?

     

  304. Awesome script even when working with dynamic image…
    Thanx for your time to build this exellence script.

    donation? hmm…still waiting for payment n this is my promise….i will…

    ;)

     

  305. Very impressive script… but I NEED HELP!!!

    I previously saw where someone had posted a modified script on this msg board with tabbed/gallery functionality. I designed a static example of what his modified script resembled at: http://www.mysticonline.com/dev/lightbox_mod.jpg

    I’ve gone through most of the msgs and can’t locate the original post with the mod script web address. Can someone tell me where to find it?

    Basically, I’m trying to get the script to cycle through multiple images of independent galleries when only displaying one text link or thumbnail for each gallery.

    I’d like to list multiple party dates (galleries) plus one thumbnail each as links, each of which will contain 40-80 photos in each gallery (sets), and when the user clicks on any date, it will launch the lightbox which in turn displays the specific gallery and all related photos in the set. The tabs at the top of the lightbox allow the user to switch between galleries without having to close the lightbox.

    Example:
    • Party #1 Jan 10th (one clickable thumbnail here)
    …[this would link to gallery #1 containing 40 related photos in the set]

    • Party #2 Feb 14th (one clickable thumbnail here)
    …[this would link to gallery #2 containing 60 related photos in the set]

    • Party #3 Mar 5th (one clickable thumbnail here)
    …[this would link to gallery #3 containing 80 related photos in the set]
    Etc….

    Someone please help!
    mrmystic@bellsouth.net

     

  306. Can I charge a flash movie like an image in Lightbox?
    I need to charge a flashvideo in something like lightbox. I know thats isn´t a real dude about lightbox but I´m desperated for something similar…you can help me please…

     

  307. #273 Leslie,

    I ran into the same problem when updating from the previous version of Lightbox. It ended up being that I was still loading the old lightbox css file along with the new one. I removed the old CSS and it worked fine. Hope it fixes your problem too!

     

  308. An unusual request. I actually have things working fine in IE but not FF. I am not getting the poloroid photo look in FF but it works in IE. What I get in FF is the picture popping up with the overlay but no whitespace between the picture and the overlay. This makes the text harder to read. Also the close gif is out of position in FF. This may be part of the same problem.

    Any ideas where the poloriod look is going wrong in FF?

    (The site is offline or I would include a link.)

    Thanks

     

  311. I’ve just incorporated LightBox 2.01 into a DotNetNuke module that also has an embedded Windows Media Player. The problem is that the wmv is overlaying portions of the LightBox images.

    I thought that I could overcome the issue through CSS and z-index values, but when I opened the LightBox js (yikes! – great work) to add the z-index, I realized that I may want to see if anyone else has tackled this issue first :-)

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    Eric

     

  312. I love the look of this, but I can’t get it to work at all. Please help! Did I do something wrong in there somewhere?

    http://www.slumberpartydetroit.com – navigate to the -about- page and click on the past members. then click a pic. nothing happens.

    How can I get this to work? I tried all of the fixes for imagemaps and what not, but still it won’t work.

     

  313. OK. I figured out today that it does work, only it’s not working in all browsers (at least on my page). It works in IE and Safari, but I can’t get it to work in Firefox. Any help?

     

  316. Hi,

    Love the scipt….best way to show my work on my portfolio

    Problem in FF and Safari that is not in IE:

    Overlay covers -everything-, even the photo and ‘close x’ box. Is something messed up?

    This is the link of the page (I’m newer to coding, I appologize for any mess) http://www.personal.psu.edu/jcf192/mrclean.html

    Let me know if there is a solution..i bet it’s just something stupid on my part.

     

  317. Hi,
    How to do to close the lightbox with escape instead of ‘x’?
    (I tried if(keycode == 27){ hideLightbox(); } but it didn’t work)
    Zanks
    Alex

     

  318. Hi, I got lightbox worked great in my website (under construction). However, I got a similar problem as imago had, could not open an image link within a google map infowindow with lightbox feature. I use Gmap v2. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!

    Ha Nguyen

     

  319. Works neatly and nice, except one thing – hope you can help out.

    I let some javascript generate a link on the page if someone hovers the mouse over an image map. This works pretty well and the generated code says also that the link is fine ( rel=”lightbox” on it ).

    Yet, if I click this generated link, the image is displayed normally without the lightbox effect.

    Here’s the code:

    if(img_src == “worldmap/america.jpg”){
    x = document.getElementById(“linkage”);
    x.innerHTML = “USA – Miami“;
    }

    Any idea what could cause this behaviour? Help is much appreciated :)

     

  321. With lightbox 2.0 you can use rel=lightbox_myset (instead of lightbox[0]) to make it valid xhtml 1.1

     

  322. I want to link the image gallery from one image so that it opens up the gallery with all pics. Right now it seems I have to link every pic in the file which isnt an option since I am working with a sliced image in which one piece calls the gallery. I just need to be able to click on that image and the gallery pops up with the photos in it to scroll through. If anyone can help me that would be greatl.

    Thanks,
    D

     

  323. hey Lokesh, what’s up? Can you please help me out with something? I put together a pic gallery using Lightbox, but for some reason still unknown to me, the “close” button won’t close. You can still close Lightbox via the keyboard but not by clicking on the close.gif.

    Any ideas about why this is happening would be extremely helpful ;-)

     

  324. I’m usuing an AJAX script from Dynamic drive and I want to put the Lighbox gallery in one of my pages, but when I click on the pictures, they don’t pop up.. and I don’t know how to make it work. I tried adding the lightbox .css file into the main .css file but it still doesn’t work, can you pleaseee help me? THanks

     

  325. Great script! This thing is as beautiful as it is functional. Nice work!

    And thanks to those who are posting solutions to problems. :)

    Cheers!

     

  326. I don’t understand why it won’t work for me. :( I’ve uploaded all the files to the appropriate places, appended the CSS to my existing stylesheet, and added the three lines of code to my header, but still no luck. Every time, the image opens in as if I had linked to it directly, not in the lightbox. I wait till the entire page and the images load, I don’t have any onload scripts in my body tag, etc. Anyone have any suggestions??

     

  328. I ran into the same problem that I saw a few other people have: generating the images via Ajax after the page has loaded causes the Lightbox to not work. I couldn’t find an answer to this anywhere, so I started hacking through the code to see if I could get something to work. Below is a link to my solution:
    http://www.travisonrails.com

     

  330. I try to use and flash mp3 play but when use it with lb the flash appear upper the lightbox. well try to use the wmode transparent and div transparent, no work on ff

    then i use SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script
    http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ and with this script work fine and im happy becuse is accesible too.

    Now i have the same problem like Travis..

     

  331. I have this script on two pages. One page links to the other.
    If I open page A, the script works fine and my images open up as they should. I can then click on a link to go to page B and images work as they should but when I click the back button to go back to page A and click on a link the image just opens up in the browser.

    Any thoughts?

    Using IE6 (work…)

     

  332. hi,

    can I use the script from a frame and display it on top of the entire page? is anybody knowing a easyer tutorial like #220, couse this is to hard to understanding for a beginner.

    please help

    thanks

     

  333. Seems that it works great, but if you click an image to enlarge before the page is loaded then the image opens in a new window. I’ve tried preloading images, and the fix mentioned but no luck. Any ideas?

     

  334. Kelley (#326) and I have the similar problem. Like she said, “Every time, the image opens in as if I had linked to it directly, not in the lightbox.” However, when I open the web page from my root folder, the lightbox works perfectly. When I view the web page from my hosting site, the image is linked directly.

    Can anyone help the both of us? This problem has been frustrated lately and I can’t seem to figure it out.

    I would really appreciate this so much. Thanks in advance.

    Also this lightbox is great!!..would be more better if I can get it to work on my site.

     

  337. Yes, i cant get this script to work for me website, all it does is when i click it takes me to a new page and shows the enlarged graphic. I need help to make the LightBox pop up and i already checked for the conflicting JavaScripts in the body code and it still doesnt work, can somebody help me?

     

  338. Hi Lokesh,

    I am from india. (I guess U R too,… If I’m not wrong!!).

    Your website looks cozy and very pleasant though it’s simple. I really like it’s design as well as functionality!!

    I work as a web-designer in DBSentry Solutions in Pune. I have been in this field for few years now. But I think I should hone my skill towards programming too. Atleast some scripting .. so that I can have a hold on UI design for web applications.

    For working so many years in just photoshop, static HTML, I have developed some sort of aversion to coding. I need some suggestions from U in this regards. How can I proceed, so that I can enhance my skill towards coding?

    Thnx in advance

     

  339. hi,
    im using iframes.and my parent page have flash objects.i try olegs project.it works fine but under the flash objects.Can u help me ?

     

  340. Excellent script! I already modified it to be somewhat flickr friendly in my site
    http://www.nargalzius.com/blog/archives/2006/07/2006_07_13_1001AM.php

    A question though: I know adding an onclick close function on the objImageContainer can make it more intuitive, but I was wondering if it was possible to only enable that when it was a SINGLE image being loaded (meaning not part of a group/array) I tried doing an if on the array.length, but it wasn’t working.

    What are your thoughts on this?

    http://www.nargalzius.com

     

  341. Hello,
    I LOVE this script, but I need help too…

    I need to change the image in the light box at load, something like this:

    onClick=”javascript:myform.big.src = myform.previewpic.src+’&big=2&lupe=2′;”

    This worked in another solution.
    How can I change the image in the Lightbox in the above way? What is the IMG name in the lightbox to grab it and replace it using JS?

    THANK YOU so much :-)

     

  343. Is there any way to make this script work with an html file instead of an image?

    Thanks
    Rick

     

  344. Hello,
    I LOVE this script, but I need help too…

    Normally the image is displayed and the click link is dispayed top to bottom.But i need the click button should display bottom to top ,Please anyone help me to change the code

     

  345. Hello,
    I LOVE this script, but I need help too…

    Normally the image is displayed and the click link is dispayed top to bottom.But i need the click button should display bottom to top ,Please anyone help me to change the code

    With thanks and Regards
    Nathan

     

  346. Help!
    I need to call the script from another javascript (a slideshow), but it doenst work if I just ad rel=lightbox…
    I need to know how to call the script with onclick…

    Thanks

     

  347. The solution using “wmode=transparent” in flash works fine. The flash movie stays behind the overlay. But have you tried it on a slower computer?
    It’s horribly slow…

    I hope there’s some other solution for this problem.

     

  349. I have the same problem like #328 Travis
    I generate images using Ajax…

    and it doesn’t work then ..

    So please any help ? it’s fatal !!

     

  350. FASTER ONLOAD SOLUTION!

    The most disturbing fact of all, is the fact that lightbox is using onload event.

    I’m quite sure, but not 101% sure, thet lightbox can work without it.

    The case is simple:
    onload fires after everything has been loaded, while we could do stuff immidiately after DOM has loaded.

    I do not have any time to do scripting at the moment, but if someone is kind enough, please lock at the following url:

    http://dean.edwards.name/weblog/2006/06/again/#comment5338

    New and excelent solution for all thos onload problems.
    And it has fallback to onload if this stuff does not work.

     

  351. Greetings,

    Firstly I just wanted to say what a fantastic set of scripts.

    I’ve been using lightbox over the past couple of months with ajax enabled websites. However, my latest one is having a problem with the image paging. See:

    http://vega.rehabstudio.co.uk/

    and click on gallery. Browse through the images using the next and previous and you will see on the third image, the next link appears below the close button. It’s really strange, seems as if the hotspot has actually started below the image. Any ideas on how it can be fixed?

    Thanks for your help.

     

  352. is ther a way to have Lightbox pull all images in a directory? For example all my wedding photos are in ./portfolio/weddings

    so rather than listing each image inside the a tag can it just assume I want to display all the images in that folder?

    Thanks
    jon

     

  353. I put the Lightbox in an inline frame, is there anyway that the image can be displayed out of the inline frame?

     

  354. Incredible script you’ve got here, I just have one problem with it.

    I use some large images in my gallery alongside this LightBox script. Now, if one of the larger images loads, it tends to go past the bottom of the HTML document, extending the page. Unfortunately, the overlay does not cover this, as it is brought up before the image stretches the page. Is there any way to fix this?

     

  355. Gidday there,

    nice script – photos stand out nicely!

    Just a question about captions. By adding the ‘title’ tag for the captions to show below the photo, it also displays popup ‘alt’ text when the user hovers over the link to the photos. This is good, but when you alter the text within the ‘title’ tag to display, for example colour fonts using html entity equivalents:

    <font color="#CD5A08"a>Photos:</font>Me<BR/>

    it then displays the HTML tags when the user hovers over the link to the photos.

    Is there anyway to overcome this without losing the captions altogether? That is, to get rid of the alt text, but keep the captions.

    Thanks for your help, from NZ.

     

  358. I have downloaded your lightbox viewer, but for some reason, the menu bar that i have seems to go right through the images in the lightbox viewer. Is there anyway to set a layers mode like in HTML? It really looks bad with the menu right in the middle of my picture. I’m new with Java. I’m just trying to make my site look good.

     

  359. Forget about my previous message. Just worked it out. It was the same problem other users have mentioned with image maps. Got rid of the image maps and the script woorks great.

     

  360. Alternate scrollbar color is not working. Any help?

    Example of scrollbar:
    (SCROLLBAR-FACE-COLOR:#454738;
    SCROLLBAR-HIGHLIGHT-COLOR:#FF9900;
    SCROLLBAR-SHADOW-COLOR: #FF9900;
    SCROLLBAR-3DLIGHT-COLOR: #454738;
    SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR: #FF9900;
    SCROLLBAR-TRACK-COLOR: #454738;
    SCROLLBAR-DARKSHADOW-COLOR: #454738;)

     

  361. Hey, Great Script!!!
    I’m having a problem with the z-index.
    I need to make a div to overlay or partially overlay the picture, but whatever value I put to the z-index the image and the image container are on top.
    Any help???

     

  364. Just an idea on problem #144:

    I’ve had the same problem. I built up a page locally, tested on my WAMP, and everytime I clicked the first image the script doesn’t work.

    Since I changed the server configuration by setting GLOBAL VARS to be ON everything works fine to me. Maybe this is the solution for this problem – maybe not. I don’t know exactly but it works :)

     

  365. #364 Ronny
    Can you teach me step by step to set the configuration? so everybody can test it whether this works, thank you in advance.

     

  366. Hhhmm, I really don’t know if this is the solution…!
    You have to get to the root of your webserver and change the file “php.ini” by setting “register_globals = on”. Usually it is off, and for security reasons it should be left off. Maybe you have to ask your webspace provider to do this for you.

    But for myself I can’t imaging that this setting should solves the problem. For me it sounds illogical ;) I think there is another fact that I ignored. Stay tuned :)

     

  367. Hello,
    thanks for this script :)

    I’m facing a problem, I’m trying to add a div container with overflow but the scrollbar of my div container isn’t display?

    dzdkjzdnjznnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
    dzdzdz

    fefefefefe
    dzdkjzdnjznnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
    dzdzdz

    fefefefefe
    dzdkjzdnjznnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
    dzdzdz

    fefefefefe
    dzdkjzdnjznnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
    dzdzdz

    fefefefefe
    dzdkjzdnjznnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
    dzdzdz

    fefefefefe

    div.Container {

    width: 300px;
    height: 80px;
    overflow: auto;
    }

    If I delete the width and height parameter in lightbox.css #overlay, the scrollbar is display correctly but the overlay effect doesn’t work :-(
    I try to set width and height manually without success.

    Thanks in advance for you help!

    Nico

     

  368. You have to position the div absolutely
    i.e.

    position: absolute;
    top: 100px;
    left: 100px;

     

  370. Found answer to above. Simple change of ‘title’ to ‘caption’ in Lightbox code & link code

     

  371. I have found another way how to fix bug when flash objects float over overlay and lightbox. Actually people who made greasemonkey lightbox script did, all I did is merage the code.

    So basically the idea is to hide flash objects while lightbox is open.

    And this is how it is done:

    Add:

    // hides flash movies that peek through the overlay
    var objects = document.getElementsByTagName(‘object’);
    for (i = 0; i != objects.length; i++) {
    objects[i].style.visibility = ‘hidden’;
    }

    var embeds = document.getElementsByTagName(‘embed’);
    for (i = 0; i != embeds.length; i++) {
    embeds[i].style.visibility = ‘hidden’;
    }

    var iframes = document.getElementsByTagName(‘iframe’);
    for (i = 0; i != iframes.length; i++) {
    iframes[i].style.visibility = ‘hidden’;
    }

    Before: hideSelectBoxes();
    Line 314
    And add:

    // show flash movies again
    var objects = document.getElementsByTagName(‘object’);
    for (i = 0; i != objects.length; i++) {
    objects[i].style.visibility = ‘visible’;
    }

    var embeds = document.getElementsByTagName(‘embed’);
    for (i = 0; i != embeds.length; i++) {
    embeds[i].style.visibility = ‘visible’;
    }

    var iframes = document.getElementsByTagName(‘iframe’);
    for (i = 0; i != iframes.length; i++) {
    iframes[i].style.visibility = ‘visible’;
    }

    Before: showSelectBoxes();
    Line: 558

    Idea and code by creators of Lightbox Greasemonkey script.

    I think this should be included in next Lightbox relase since who need flash in the background when they are looking at the picture.

    Thanks for lightbox, it has made my day multiple times, I just love it.

     

  372. Thank you for your great script.

    I have a problem that the images only shows totally at the bottom of my website.

    Does anybody has a suggestion?

    you can click on the first image you see, and it will show up at the bottom of the screen.

    http://ifolio.idfact.net/?p=150

     

  374. nice script…
    1st time I use this script, it didn’t work and I give up to settle the problem… but, I try and error this script and its done!!!

    feel free to visit Tourism Langkawi…

     

  375. Image Maps-
    I’ve got them working with the fixes listed above (with the ‘rel’ method, i couldn’t get the ‘alt’ method working). However, I can’t get the groups to work, just a single image.
    The gallery, which works with groups, is here
    http://www.aboutlaketahoe.com/hiking/whitney/index.htm

    the image map, whiere grouping doesn’t work, is here
    http://www.aboutlaketahoe.com/hiking/whitney/whitney-topo.htm

    When i try to use the group functionality within the image map, the image opens as a jpg

     

  376. Again!
    Has anyone been able to extend the dark background on IE? If the page of images causes a scrollbar to appear, and if I scroll down, and click on a picture, the dark background doesn’t fill all the way.

    Please, i want this answer.
    alexandre.paulino@bol.com.br

     

  377. ok.. still nothing.. it still won’t work..

    i tried the different links.. i even tried hardcoding it.. but all i get is the shadow effect and a white box. nothing else loads..

    i tried the test page here:

    http://www.shermanyang-photography.net/lightbox/

    and it works fine..

    but for some reason it won’t work on my other page..

    i’m sure the links to the pictures are right..

    please look…

    http://www.shermanyang-photography.net/ … page4.html

    both 800×600 links aren’t working.. thumbnails will come later.. but that’s after i get the links to work… sad

    PLEASE HELP!!!

     

  378. This is great! integrates perfectly with my blog and colorscheme too *lucky me!* Thanks :D

     

  379. @ 377 / Sherman

    I think you used IE7 (beta), no?! I’ve had the same problem but was fixed in IE7 final…anyway, I looked at your Page and everything works fine to me. I’m using Firefox. Btw: really nice pictures!!!

     

  380. Just closing a link that was unclosed earlier on somewhere in the page, and is causing a bit of trouble. Might work, might not.

     

  381. I have a problem using lightbox .. on my site i have a DHTML menu which stays on top.. kindda like the flash problem ..
    plz help !

     

  382. the plugin works perfectly except one thing … i dont have image thumbnails . how can i fix it so i have image thumbnails instead of text links

     

  383. First of all thanks for this awesome script but “Houston, we have a problem” :/

    I’ve got no captions at all under my image(s). I’ve tried changing the font color but it gives nothing. I can see for instance ” Image 1 of 2″ but nothing more, no caption.

    What is more I found another web site using this script and there are captions ,but after copying the source to my program this site doesn’t display captions too.

    I’m deseperate , I need help!!please….

     

  385. How can i postion the light box at the a specific height from the top i want. Say 100px from the top. i try to change the in the lightbox.css but it did not work. please help. thanks.

    #lightbox{
    position:absolute;
    ==>top: 40px;

     

  387. Hello, i’ve been trying to get this lightbox to work with my flash menu. You can use wmode but in firefox the menu gets inactive sometimes. Does anyone know how to fix this? when the menu is inactive you have to click on it once to get it to work like it should again.
    One thing you can do that will work is to hide the flash when you open the lightbox but that looks kinda ugly. A smart thing would be to instead of hiding the menu you could use wmode transparent just when the lightbox is active.. but Im not a javascript expert, If anyone could do this I would be very happy :)

    You can contact me at denniz.gull@gmail.com

     

  388. If you’re trying to move the position of the Lightbox display from the standard 40px, the answer isn’t in the CSS but lightbox.js. Do a search for “top” and you’ll see this snip of code:

    setTop: function(element,t) {
    element = $(element);
    element.style.top = t +”px”;
    },

    “t” is what controls the actual distance from the top of the page.

     

  390. I’m using XSL to render an XML document that acts as a photo gallery. It seems that XSL takes issue with the load order of the scriptaculous files. When prototype is loaded before scriptaculous, the page refuses to render at all. When you load them in the reverse order, the page renders fine, but lightbox breaks. The images load in a new window. I have lightbox working on an HTML based page just fine, so I know everything is set up right.

    Anyone know of any work arounds?

    http://wam.umd.edu/~mvandani/gallery.xml
    http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails-spinoffs/2006-March/003158.html

     

  392. Has anyone modifed this script to make the slideshow play automatically with playback controls such as “play”, “pause”, and “stop”?

     

  393. Think I know why some of you can´t get the lightbox to overlay flash files. The wmode param must look like this:

    fo.addParam(“wmode”, “transparent”);

    On some pages where I´ve searched for this issue they´ve incorrectly written

    so.addParam(“wmode”, “transparent”);

    No wonder it didn´t work out. After like 5 hours of testing and google searching I found this out. Good luck to ya all! I´m sure you´ll get it right.

    THANKS alot for the great lightbox. Everybodu Must donate!!!! :) I will at least.

     

  394. Have to correct myself too. :)

    What I wanted said is that if you have “var fo”, the addParam must start with “fo”, like this.
    Flash content here

    var fo = new FlashObject(“banner.swf”, “banner”, “900″, “120″, “6″, “#000000″);
    fo.addParam(“quality”, “high”);
    fo.addParam(“wmode”, “transparent”);
    fo.write(“intro”);

    on some pages they´ve mixed these “var fo” with “var so”. Make sure it´s equal and it´ll work out.

     

  395. Maiku Mori you are amazing!… i was about to kill someone cause every thing i tried… swfobject, params… etc. nothing worked. finally!… I LOVE YOU! … for people who are annoyed with the flash showing up on top of the overlay…

    READ COMMENT #371

    trust me.. it will work for you. best thing… all you have to do is copy and paste. yah! this makes me happy. sweet.

     

  396. Great script. We have implemented some more javascript to create a media center using the lightbox2. When you roll your mouse over a thumbnail it will auto load the image to the left, then a user can click on the “left” side image to pop up the lightscript 2 feature. Here’s a link enjoy!

    http://theindy.net/nick

     

  397. p.s. We have two versions of this script implemented. #1 being the left larger image pop up, then if you click the [ view all pics ] at the top right you can see the comments and scroll . That’s all.

    :)

    great script again! love it.

     

  398. Hi people,

    I am trying to use this lightbox on my homepage with another js script. my menue bar. it works, but my menue-bar appears in front of the pictures with full opcacity. since i have no clue how to modify anything I would appreciate some help! please!
    if I could change the position of the picture it woldn’t get in the way with my menubar also. maybe that would work?

    thanks so much

     

  400. I have a problem, my page loads, click on a link just opens the jpg in the browser. When I click “back” and then click the link everything works like it should. Any ideas on a work around for this?

     

  402. This is a super script, my visitors love it as a gallery!

    I put my files on a new server today, Loghtbox doesn’t seem to work at all on this server, the larger image show up in a full page, with no actions possible, except “back” to see the thmbnails. Anyone have any suggetsions? I’m going to ask my new server people also.

    Thanks very much, and again a huge thanks for such an elegant image show.

     

  403. This is a super script, my visitors love it as a gallery!

    I put my files on a new server today, Lightbox doesn’t work at all on this server – the larger images show up in full pages, with no actions possible, except “back” to see the thumbnails. Anyone have any suggetsions? I’m going to ask my new server people also.

    Thanks very much, and again a huge thanks for such an elegant image show.

     

  404. Sorry folks, getting late here – I forgot to upload a couple of js files.

    All working fine now.

    Michael

     

  405. Gives a way to sort the Groups? If i will next & prev funktion can i sort this with a id? For example: rel=”lightbox[roadtripIDx]”

    Example:
    Galerie 1:
    rel=”lightbox[roadtrip1]”
    rel=”lightbox[roadtrip1]”
    rel=”lightbox[roadtrip1]”

    Galerie 2:
    rel=”lightbox[roadtrip2]”
    rel=”lightbox[roadtrip2]”

    Galerie 3:
    rel=”lightbox[roadtrip3]“

     

  406. Sorry, this works already.

    Sorry for Bad English, you can delete my Comments.

     

  407. Here’s how to open a Lightbox using Flash. This ONLY works for single Lightboxes. This will NOT work for the gallery function of Lightbox.

    This script will ONLY work if you have already set your HTML page to use the Lightbox script.

    Add this script inside your HEAD tag in HTML:

    function FlashLightbox(sPicURL,Title) {
    var biolink = document.createElement(‘a’);
    biolink.href = sPicURL;
    biolink.rel = “lightbox”;
    biolink.title = Title;
    myLightbox.start(biolink);
    }

    Now, code your FLASH object using:

    yourinstance.onRelease=function(){
    getURL(“javascript:FlashLightbox(‘path to image’,'title’)”);
    }

    All set! Lightbox is phenomenal, but I needed a way to open the lightbox with Flash. ENJOY!

     

  408. Imagemaps: Thanks Jason, #140… but I’m having a problem getting both Imagemaps AND normal functionality on the same page. I created a new file called lightbox-map.js using ‘area’ vs ‘a’, however, of course when I load both scripts in my header the last one takes precedence. So I can always get either ImageMaps or normal images to work, but never both simultaneously.

    Suggestions? Thanks. (wonderful script!)

     

  409. This is another modified Lightbox JS named Lightbox Plus by Takayu Otani.

    http://serennz.sakura.ne.jp/toybox/lightbox/?en

    * The image is expandable when the image size is larger than the current window size.
    * The image is resized automatically to suit to the current window size.
    * The echoic word image can be applied.
    * The zoom ratio can be changed by mouse wheel.
    * The zoomed image can be dragged.

     

  410. First of all, let me say that you script is really amazing! Thanks for sharing..

    The flash and also form input “issue” can also be resolved with the following js script.

    http://lowereast.nl/V2/templates/wch.js

    It would be a really nice addition to the script to include the file.

    Maarten

     

  411. Here’s a terribly non-standard hack that allows image maps and regular links to show up in Lightbox when on the same page.

    Encapsulate the area tag in an href like:

    Ugly right? Works in IE6, does not work (as I guess it shouldn’t) in Firefox. I haven’t figured out a real solution yet.

     

  412. Well, the code was stripped out of my comment.

    In any case, just use an href and call lightbox as normal, then place that around each your area tags.

     

  413. Hi guys, Ive got a problem. so far couldnt find the wright answer. What should i do, to make the picture display in the center position of the screen, no matter how big the screen is?

    Thanks for in advance Your help.

     

  414. Hi, thanks for this wonderful script, I have a good time customizing it for my website.

    I want to ask something, is it going to be a further development to enable the Lightbox to lload swf movies or quicktime movs?

     

  416. M4A to MP3 Converter can convert M4A video or audio files to MP3 files.
    M4A to MP3 Converter can also convert other media files to MP3 files, these media files may
    include WAV, OGG, WMA, WMV, ASF, ASX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP4, M4A, AAC, MOV
    homepage: http://www.m4a-to-mp3-converter.com/

     

  417. love the script, but just curious..is there any way to make the images load resized to fit the viewers browser..and if not, what attribute in the css if anywhere…resizes the images? I have found a way to resize the images but the outside contaniner for the image stays the same large size as the original image. thanks.

     

  419. Thanyou ZAP for good script “Autoloader” LB is very GOOOD

     

  421. anyone know how to get lightbox v2.0 to appear in iframes…

    i would like to have lightbox to load up in the parent page not inside my iframes when people click the images on my iframes…

    Can anyone address this? The solution on here does not work for v2.0 of light box because i followed the instructions and cant get it to work

    thank you very much for your time

     

  422. Hi,

    Very cool script.

    I’ve added the possibility of using Lightbox with AREA tags. It works fine in both Firefox and IE6. But it’s not XHTML 1.0 strict valid because ‘rel’ attribute doesn’t exist for AREA tags.
    I’ve tried to replace the “rel??? attribute by “class??? (in HTML and lightbox.js). It works very well in Firefox, but not in IE: the image opens up in a new page.

    Please, how to solve that issue?

    Thank you very much for your work and your time

     

  424. Heya :)

    Great little scrpit here. Thanks heaps for it.

    I have an issue with ‘imagemaps’. Im using Lightbox in conjunction with a phpbb forum, to show images. When you click on a normal image link, Lightbox works fine. The issue im having can be seen here –

    http://www.photographyschool.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3

    The thumbnail and its respective code is provided by photobucket. I thought to use the thumbnail feature to keep forum speed efficient. I tried the suggested fixes for imagemaps but when i make those changes, Lightbox stops working altogether and just opens the image in a seperate window. This is the code supplied by photobucket for the clickanle thumbnail -

    [URL=http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n272/skiman101/test-800px.jpg][img]http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n272/skiman101/th_test-800px.jpg[/img][/URL]

    .. and this is the standard IMG code that works as part of the forum.

    [img]http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n272/skiman101/test-800px.jpg[/img]

    Ive been looking for a solution for some days now and really hope that one your gurus will be able to help. Im a javascript n00b, so as many details as possible would be really great.

    Thanks guys :)

     

  425. Hi.

    I’ve been struggling with this for a while.

    I want to have the name of my photo to display bold, then a description of it underneath in regular type, how can I create a second line of text?

    THANKS

     

  426. Hi,

    Does anyone know if its possible to make this lightbox work using the links from inside a flash swf?

    Many thanks

    Jeff

     

  427. Hi, I’ve got it to work in firefox and IE 7 but it opens in a new window in IE6 and below, what am i missing?

    Many thanks….Dustin

     

  428. Hi guys,

    Thanks for providing such a creative script.
    I’ve done some testing and looks very nice, however, there seems to be a bug with displaying bigger images, mainly the transition effect is lagging, thus producing artifacts.
    Another thing, “lightbox[group images]” breaks my %100 valid XHTML 1.1 code. W3C doesn’t like this. Can you please modify your code to comply with W3C standards?
    Maybe, modify it like this “lightbox-slideshow”, I’m not a Java progammer, just a suggestion.

    Thanks again.

     

  429. the flash buttons appear on the outside of the image, i believe itsd called the overlay

    this is a great script but is there anywayt o fix that?

     

  431. Hi there,

    yesterday I downloaded LighBox 2.02 and got the problem that the lightbox is opened IN an iFrame and not on top frame.
    Since I didn’t look for the solutions posted here I altered the script to fix my problem, and it works. So I thought it would be a good idea to share my modifications.

    The modifications I made solve this problem top-down, so you have to include the javascripts on the frame that should display the lightbox. Therefore you don’t have to include the javascripts in the iFrames itself.
    Additionally I tried to make it as easy-to-use as I could.

    OK. I’ll explain how you implement my version. On the top frame that displays the lightbox include the scripts as usual. But the iFrame has to be defined with a ‘longDesc’:

    Then you define you iframe.html:


    That’s nearly all. Here are the modifications to lightbox.js:

    Introduce a flag in the configuration part:
    var deepSearchForLinks = true;

    Add these three functions at the end of the script (but before the definition of initLightbox()):
    //
    // getAnchors(documentToSearchIn)
    //
    //
    function getAnchors(documentToSearchIn) {
    var result = new Array();

    if(deepSearchForLinks) {
    var frames = getFrames(documentToSearchIn);
    for(i = 0; i

     

  432. @ Newlukai
    Hello,
    At first thank you for your tip! But I think your code you have sent us is incomlpet.
    Please can you send us the three functions.
    Greats
    Lumu

     

  434. Has Anybody actually gotten this to work:

    ——

    #407 Isaac Simon
    December 1, 2006 @ 5:58 pm

    Here’s how to open a Lightbox using Flash. This ONLY works for single Lightboxes. This will NOT work for the gallery function of Lightbox.

    This script will ONLY work if you have already set your HTML page to use the Lightbox script.

    Add this script inside your HEAD tag in HTML:

    function FlashLightbox(sPicURL,Title) {
    var biolink = document.createElement(‘a’);
    biolink.href = sPicURL;
    biolink.rel = “lightbox”;
    biolink.title = Title;
    myLightbox.start(biolink);
    }

    Now, code your FLASH object using:

    yourinstance.onRelease=function(){
    getURL(“javascript:FlashLightbox(‘path to image’,'title’)”);
    }

    All set! Lightbox is phenomenal, but I needed a way to open the lightbox with Flash. ENJOY!

    ———

    Please be detailed or provide a copy of a sample .fla and .html page to see how this was done would be great!

     

  435. lightbox is amazing,I like it very much!thanks a lot!
    but it can’t work in IE 7! it opens in a new window
    why?

    LIGHTBOX??!????,??????!
    ??IE7?????????,??????????
    ????

     

  437. I’m using this script on my agency site at http://www.getconcentric.com/portfolio.html

    The portfolio itself is within a div that has overflow set to auto. The problem I’m having is that the scroll bar shows on top of the displayed images in lightbox…seams to only be a Firefox problem. Does anyone know how to fix this?.

     

  439. hi
    excellent script. really works ocut fine wit som minor adjustments.

    just got one question:

    everything looks nice in firefox on pc and safari on mac but in firefox on mac the caption bar flickers just after it appears.

    does anyone else have that problem?
    any good solutions to the problem?

    http://www.peterlundgren.se

     

  440. Hi there,
    Excellent script, works nicely. I was wondering if the following is possible.

    Your second example shows the overlay with the click through [Next tab] to the next picture and so on. How could you alter the code so that the script runs off one picture with a selection of images (like a gallery) contained within?

    Thanks

     

  441. I have linked some of the images to external website. Has anybody found a way to specify a new target for the page to open in a new window?

    Thanks.
    Sophie

     

  442. Hi there, anyone know what the opacity settings in the #overlay style is CSS are for? They don’t seem to affect the opacity of the grey/black background – what are they for? Is there a way to adjust the opacity of the background?

    Thanks.

    #overlay {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    z-index: 90;
    width: 100%;
    height: 500px;
    background-color: #000;
    filter: alpha(opacity=60);
    -moz-opacity: 0.6;
    opacity: 0.6;
    }

     

  444. Hi,
    This lightbox is amazing! One question though. Is it possible to zoom in on the image within the modal window? I wish to use lightbox to display photos of mauscripts where it will be necessary to zoom in to make out the hand writing. Obviously this will require that the jpegs are quite high res but is there a zoom function with lightbox or would it be easy to add? Not too hot with javascript myself, I’m afraid.

     

  445. The script isn’t working for me… when I click the thumbnail it just opens up the image in the same window. Help!

     

  446. Any idea on how to get Groups working with imagemaps?
    As soon as the [groupname] tag is inserted, lightbox ceases to work.

    Thanks.

     

  447. Help !!!

    this is a fantastic script but how to use it in a iframe page.

    for example : i have picture in a iframe and i would like to load this script in the parent page. http://www.fmipro.fr

    Please HELP ME :(

     

  448. I found my self in the position where I wanted to load an image with lightbox from an iframe, but with target = _top

    The approach suggested by Sean K. is in my oppinion WAY to difficuelt.

    Instead, implement the lightbox script in the _top page, as suggested by Sean K. as well. But when calling the script, it is way more simple to send a “virtual” a tag to the showLightbox function. Here is how ive done it:

    Show image

    function showImage(sImage, sTitle)
    {
    // Make a virtual link we can send to the original lightbox file.
    var oLink = document.createElement(“a”);
    oLink.title = sTitle;
    oLink.href = sImage;

    window.parent.showLightbox(oLink);

    return;
    }

    Hope this can be useful to someone.

     

  449. do you have a HTML exemple on the web ??

    it will helpfull for me :)

    look at this adress my problem : http://www.fmipro.fr/index2.html

    see image on the right, when you click on it, it open the lightbox script in iframe page and not in the main page :(

     

  450. thanks Torben Lajer

    but there is no showLightbox function in the new lighbox.js V2

    other idea ?

     

  451. Thanks for a great script! For those of you having troubles with the fact that it dosen’t work if you click an image link before the page has finished loading, then include the following on you page:

    function noLeftClick() {
    if (event.button==1) {
    alert(‘Loading … ‘);
    }
    }
    { document.onmousedown=noLeftClick; }

    function enable() {
    document.onmousedown= null;
    }

     

  452. And remember to include the following in the onload of you body:
    enable();

     

  453. One of the templates I am using with flash content is causing a
    problem!

    Basically, I am using “lightbox” – to display photographs.

    Here you can see it working fine – on one of my “class” sites that
    doesnt have flash content.

    http://www.hillsideprimaryschool.co.uk/2p/docs/art.htm

    I have run into this issue before and its always just been a case of
    adding “WMODE = transparent” into the flash parameters. (as others have pointed out above)

    However, the problem I have with this one, is the flash is loaded from
    Javascript. I dont think it would be too much of a problem for someone
    with javascript knowledge to edit – but for me – its double dutch!

    The javascript itself is located here:

    http://www.hillsideprimaryschool.co.uk/5p/swfobject.js

    and the code to load the swf file is:

    var so = new SWFObject(“flash_main_01.swf”,
    “flash_main_01″, “600″, “150″, “6″, “#FFFFFF”);
    so.write(“flashcontent”);

    ie the swf parameters would need to be added to the above, and the js
    file edited acordingly to add WMode transparent.

    http://www.hillsideprimaryschool.co.uk/5p/art2.htm is the offending
    page!

    Anyone have any ideas?

     

  454. lez,

    working thru that issue now… i’ll post the results. i have a version of lightbox.js that contains all the swfobject support and it works fine but the overlay problem hasn’t yet been remedied…

    stay tuned…

     

  455. Bingo. Use the code from I believe it’s post 371:

    Open up your lightbox.js and make the following additions:

    Line ~314 right before “hideSelectBoxes();”

    Add:
    // hides flash movies that peek through the overlay
    var objects = document.getElementsByTagName(‘object’);
    for (i = 0; i != objects.length; i++) {
    objects[i].style.visibility = ‘hidden’;
    }

    var embeds = document.getElementsByTagName(‘embed’);
    for (i = 0; i != embeds.length; i++) {
    embeds[i].style.visibility = ‘hidden’;
    }

    var iframes = document.getElementsByTagName(‘iframe’);
    for (i = 0; i != iframes.length; i++) {
    iframes[i].style.visibility = ‘hidden’;
    }

    and ~ line 558 right before “showSelectBoxes();”
    add:
    // show flash movies again
    var objects = document.getElementsByTagName(‘object’);
    for (i = 0; i != objects.length; i++) {
    objects[i].style.visibility = ‘visible’;
    }

    var embeds = document.getElementsByTagName(‘embed’);
    for (i = 0; i != embeds.length; i++) {
    embeds[i].style.visibility = ‘visible’;
    }

    var iframes = document.getElementsByTagName(‘iframe’);
    for (i = 0; i != iframes.length; i++) {
    iframes[i].style.visibility = ‘visible’;
    }

    This fix supports all content embedded via object, embed, and iframe tags. If you’re using SWFOBJECT to embed your flash stuff (like I am), you’re still supported, as all SWFOBJECT.JS does is write the stuff for you.

    Very pleased. Thanks Maiku for digging that fix up. :)

     

  456. Hi there.. I created my own AJAxified photo album using asp. I call it The Photobox. I incorporated Lightbox on it. I’m planning to release this soon as soon as I polished the admin section. It doesn’t need a database. Also it lacks an automated thumbnailer so I still manage to create thumbnail manually using a freeware Thumbnail creator program. The interface is similar to Photostack.org’s. See it in action: http://wilsonroial.uni.cc and click Photobox.

     

  457. Using Firefox 2.0 on Mac OS X, if there is an element with a visible scroll bar underneath the lightbox window (such as a textarea or an overflowing div), the scrollbar shows through the window. Perhaps something should be added to the script to give the property “overflow: none” to elements on the page with scrollbars.

     

  458. Thanks fir that Steve. I must admit, I did read through but missed that!

    However I did find a much simpler solution that works!

    Above the so.write(“flashcontent”);

    Simply add:

    so.addParam(“wmode”, “opaque”);

    and hey presto!

    Works on FF, Opera IE6 and IE7

     

  459. Great script. One question, is it possible to get the images to loop within its groop?

     

  460. I’ve used Lightbox to add a very small gallery element to my website, but I’ve a query with regards to the loading.gif image placement.

    On the first image to be enlarged (and it seems only the first), the loading.gif image is shifted ever so slightly to the right.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Simon.

     

  461. Hi!

    First of all, sorry for my English :)

    My webpage has 3 frames (not iframes), and you know, this lightbox effect works only in the “self” page. But I would like to fade in black all frames.

    How can I solve the problem?

    THX!

     

  462. Hello, I need to know how I can modify the code line where the “Image 1 of 2″ is.

    I’d like to have the possibility to change that frase in a nother for example “Immagine 1 di 2″ in italian language.

    Thank you all!

     

  463. Hey there, I’ve created a site that uses lightbox and it works totally fine with my WAMP setup on my machine, but when I uploaded the whole directory to my mediatemple grid-server space it completely doesn’t work, it’s like it’s not even there. Anyone know about lightbox not working with mediatemple?

     

  465. regarding the “BIOLINK” function to call lightbox from within Flash button – i got the function to work fine within HTML

    for example just calling the function from a regular href:

    Test Link

     

  466. UPDATE! okay, for those of you trying to load lightbox from WITHIN flash, comment number #407 works PERFECTLY – but ONLY if you view from a webserver – NOT locally…

    flash 8 does not allow javascript to be called from local machines… i simply uploaded to my site – and it works perfectly…

    thanks!

     

  467. # 462 icefake

    do a search in your editor. search for the following (or part of it):

    Element.setInnerHTML( ‘numberDisplay’, “image ” + eval(activeImage + 1) + ” of ” + imageArray.length)

    It should be somewhere around line 439

    QUESTION:
    Has anyone figured out how to link to a whole map of images? I have read the above comments, but I just can’t fugure it out…
    please help me.

    Marcel
    http://www.28stieren.nl

     

  468. #467 28stieren

    nevermind. I found it.
    very handsome script by the way!

     

  469. Guys, I’m not at all getting this script to work…

    Seems like the styles.css file is missing from the download…

    I need help setting this up urgently please

    Stephan

     

  471. Hello,

    I’m experiencing a strange problem. When I view pages using this script locally images are always displayed in the center of the screen. However, when I upload these files to a web server and view these same pages over the internet the overlay does not cover the entire page and images are not centered. Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks

     

  472. Your script is GREAT!

    I do have a problem though at http://www.smokymtbarbecue.com. My Godaddy SSL box at the bottom of my site stays in front of my photos and the transparent background. Can you help?

     

  474. Hello

    Have somebody thought about a combination with the onmouceover Javascript.command .
    So that you dont have to click on a pic, only to go over?

    For a small semple, i were very pleasre

    Robert

     

  475. hi there:

    i just found an image host who hosts the light box script and your image light box’d for free…

    http://www.inselpix.com

    i just thought i’d share it with you all! :)

    j

     

  476. Does anyone have a work around for using lightbox JS with iframes. Im at all familiar with javascripting so layman’s description would be greatly appreicated.

     

  477. my Flash floating on top problem was resovled using the wmode= transparent. I put it everywhere I could becuase in some places it would work in Firefox but not IE. The follow format resolved both browsers issues:

     

  478. Hi there, really nice script, I have a problem that I have seen others post about but haven’t found an answer yet.

    the link to the page where I use it is

    http://www.structured.se/eriks.html (among others) and everything works peachy in my computer when tested locally, but when run from the server where the site is located it won’t find the images, just stays in the loading screen,

    also I know this is an older version of lightbox but I happen to prefer this one to the newer one.

    On another note is that I have trouble linking to images without the lightbox as well, so if anyone have the time to look at my codes and give me a slap if I messed up somewhere that would be appreciated.

     

  479. I am having problem with displaying along with Google Map.

    Any solution ?

     

  482. Lokesh, thanks for this awesome script. This was real easy to deploy thanks to your crystal clear instructions as well!!!

     

  483. I believe I’m having a conflict between the function on my site for rollover images and the lightbox. If I remove the function, the rollovers stop working on my navigation links, but if I leave it in then the lightbox won’t open images correctly. It won’t resize the images to fit and text appears behind the image. Any idea how I could fix this?

     

  485. I love this script !
    BUT , i have a bit of a problem,
    I’ve been asking everybody I can about this, and nobody seems to know the answer.
    I’m using freewebs and I’m trying to use Lightbox 2.03a on it, but I can’t seem to figure out how to install it..
    could somebody, ANYBODY PLEASE help me with this,
    I’m trying to design a site for my photography,
    Please Help :)
    Britni

     

  486. Hi,

    Is there any way to display caption in the right side of the image?

    Thanks
    Habeeb

     

  487. Hi I need a ligthbox that will allow me to do the following on my firstpage,i have a single image-when visitor click on that image,i want it to open a lightbox, and then to have multiple other images that load afterwards.

    (I only want to display one image, and after someone clicks, I want it to open a lightbox where people can click on Next or Previous to move through the remaining 4 or 5 images on my page.)

    Reply me ASAP.

    Thanks in advance.

    Thanks & Regards
    Akthari Begum.M

     

  489. sorry,
    i’m using not Joomla 1.5.8, i’m using the “old” version 1.0.15….
    ;)

     

  490. hi,
    lightbox is dispalaying fine.but the drop down in the parent window disappears.
    help me

     

  491. hi lokesh

    i am a web designer and web animator, i am making my 1st site as my freelance work. its a commercial site and i will get small amount for making that site. i wanted to ask u that is there is any charge or cost i have to pay to use your lightbox script in that site.

     

  492. hey!
    I tried various solution for loading the image outside the iframe. Can’t get it to work. Can somebody make the salution downloadable in an example?
    I would be very greatfull.
    I’m using Plogger with lightbox skin so preferable only some changes to the .js or .css file of lightbox.
    thanx!

     

  493. I’ve read above, but am having trouble getting the lightbox captions (title tags) moved over to the alt or similar tag to hack around the title tooltip popup. Everything I try seems to break the .js lightbox functionality. Any help?

     

  494. * found this fix for 2.0.4: [http://www.saurdo.com/01/03/using-html-in-a-lightbox-description]

    The exact javascript file you need to edit is in the “/js/” folder and is named “lightbox.js”. The line you will need to edit is line 218 and 223 in Lightbox v2. In different versions it may vary. If you do not see the word “title” anywhere on those lines then doing a search for “title” should yield your results.

    You should see something like this:

    if ((imageLink.rel == ‘lightbox’)){
    // if image is NOT part of a set, add single image to imageArray
    this.imageArray.push([imageLink.href, imageLink.title]);
    } else {
    // if image is part of a set..
    this.imageArray =
    $$(imageLink.tagName + ‘[href][rel="' + imageLink.rel + '"]‘).
    collect(function(anchor){ return [anchor.href, anchor.title]; }).
    uniq();

    while (this.imageArray[imageNum][0] != imageLink.href) { imageNum++; }
    }

    Simply change the attribute “title” on both of your lines to the attribute of your choice. I have even highlighted it for your convenience. Once finished you may save and exit. The next step is to edit your HTML to correspond to your new attribute. This is as easy as changing “title” to “id” in your img tag.

    Your HTML tag should now look like this (if you used the ID attribute):

    Image

    Now you’re done. You may now use HTML in your lightbox description. However, you still have to deal with writing all that gibberish. If your images are dynamically handled by a PHP script you’ll be happy to hear that there’s a little function called “htmlentities()” that will deal with all that for you. I use the exact function in my gallery script.

    If you’re unfortunate enough to be coding your gallery entirely in HTML without the help of a server side language I have created a little program that might help you out. I made it in Quickscript in fact!

    Here is the source code for my little htmlentity encoding program:

    if($_POST){
    $code = $_POST['code'];
    echo ‘Enter HTML here:
    ‘.$code.’

    ‘;
    echo ‘Result:’.htmlentities($code).”;
    }
    else{
    echo ‘
    Enter HTML here:

    ‘;
    }

    You may use the program on my website by going here. If you’d like to use it on your own server you’ll need to edit the bits with my URL in it. That part was necessary to add because I was using quickscript and there was no absolute path for it to follow since it was retrieving the code from the database.

    Now you are truly done! You are now free to use the HTML you encode into html entities in your Lightbox descriptions without having any nasty titles or having to use a lightbox alternative. If you have any quetions feel free to contact me.

     

  496. I found this lightbox just a few hours before. While the v2 seems more sophisticated in some way, I prefer this one because the prototype.js’ 120k++ size seems a lil bulky for me.

    The problem I have to face with this one is AJAX compatibility, since initLightbox would only work on the initial opening of the page, not when dynamic image links acquired with AJAX. I found my wayaround after taking a peek at lightbox.js. Here is the steps:
    1. comment out line 285 – 295 (which perform “on-the-fly” anchor modification)
    2. comment out the last line which says addLoadEvent(initLightbox); to prevent initialization (in FF it works just fine with this line uncommented but I find that IE thinks differently :p)
    3. in your AJAX div area (the div u used to load AJAX content), put this line AFTER your ):
    initLightbox();
    4. the last one, in EVERY anchor you produced using AJAX, put this in the onClick event:
    showLightbox(this);return false;
    i.e:

    And… voila!! Have fun with your AJAX gallery+lightbox :D

    P.S: Sorry if this cheapskate trick is already posted by someone before. Just trying to share :)

     

  497. Oopps… it looks like my post are being filtered out -.-”

    …
    Step 3: in your AJAX div area (the div u used to load AJAX content), put this line AFTER your closing div ([/div]):
    [script]initLightbox();[/script]

    Step 4: the last one, in EVERY anchor you produced using AJAX, put this in the onClick event:
    showLightbox(this);return false;
    i.e:
    [a href="yourimage.jpg" onClick="showLightbox(this);return false;"][img src="thumbnail.jpg"][/a]

     

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