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**rmculos** · 10-28-2009, 03:09 PM

Can someone not only provide a simple code but specific directions on how to add a lightbox to a link on a page.

It seems simple and I keep getting close but not cigar.

Thank you.

RC

**angele803** · 10-28-2009, 03:34 PM

Have you tried this one?
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

It is pretty simple and has good directions on how to set it up.

**LadynRed** · 10-28-2009, 04:12 PM

Yes, and they come WITH instructions and examples

**jim1228** · 10-28-2009, 04:13 PM

This may be outdated.

HTML Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" />
<script src="js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="js/jquery.lightbox.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){$(".lightbox").lightbox();});
</script>

<a href="1.jpg" class="lightbox" rel="gallery"><img src="thumb_1.jpg" alt="Your Image Title" title="Your Image Title" /></a>

You need to upload the external script files to your server.

**rmculos** · 10-28-2009, 04:25 PM

Believe it or not I have tried that and it was still confusing. I'll go back and work on it again.

Thanks all.

**rmculos** · 10-28-2009, 05:30 PM

Okay - not getting it - working with a basic lightbox.

Here is my code (trying to launch image-1 from hotspot):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects,builder"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/lightbox.js"></script>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>

<body>
<img src="index.jpg" width="1200" height="950" border="0" usemap="#Map" />
<map name="Map" id="Map">
<area shape="rect" coords="313,479,412,498" href="images/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="my caption" />
</map>
</body>
</html>

Here is my CSS:

#lightbox{ position: absolute; left: 0; width: 100%; z-index: 100; text-align: center; line-height: 0;}
#lightbox img{ width: auto; height: auto;}
#lightbox a img{ border: none; }

#outerImageContainer{ position: relative; background-color: #fff; width: 250px; height: 250px; margin: 0 auto; }
#imageContainer{ padding: 10px; }

#loading{ position: absolute; top: 40%; left: 0%; height: 25%; width: 100%; text-align: center; line-height: 0; }
#hoverNav{ position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; height: 100%; width: 100%; z-index: 10; }
#imageContainer>#hoverNav{ left: 0;}
#hoverNav a{ outline: none;}

#prevLink, #nextLink{ width: 49%; height: 100%; background-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,AAAA); /* Trick IE into showing hover */ display: block; }
#prevLink { left: 0; float: left;}
#nextLink { right: 0; float: right;}
#prevLink:hover, #prevLink:visited:hover { background: url(images/prevlabel.gif) left 15% no-repeat; }
#nextLink:hover, #nextLink:visited:hover { background: url(images/nextlabel.gif) right 15% no-repeat; }

#imageDataContainer{ font: 10px Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #fff; margin: 0 auto; line-height: 1.4em; overflow: auto; width: 100% ; }

#imageData{ padding:0 10px; color: #666; }
#imageData #imageDetails{ width: 70%; float: left; text-align: left; }
#imageData #caption{ font-weight: bold; }
#imageData #numberDisplay{ display: block; clear: left; padding-bottom: 1.0em; }
#imageData #bottomNavClose{ width: 66px; float: right; padding-bottom: 0.7em; outline: none;}

#overlay{ position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; z-index: 90; width: 100%; height: 500px; background-color: #000; }

Any mistakes? The screen gets dark but no image shows up.

Thank you!!

**angele803** · 10-28-2009, 06:10 PM

What version of the lightbox are you using? Is it the latest one that is available for download on the site I posted earlier? Is it a different one?

I think it could have something to do with the image map, but the latest version says it supports image maps...???

**rmculos** · 10-28-2009, 06:15 PM

Yes it's the latest, Version 2:

http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/

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