I want to call lightbox with a JavaScript OnClick event. How exactly is this done? The reason is that I want a whole clickable table row to be the object you click on to call the lightbox window.
To see the page I'm using this on follow this link:
http://fastngoodwebsites.com/victorian 3/lightbox_test.html
I'm doing this because you can't contain block elements inside an inline element. So I can't wrap the table row inside a simple lightbox anchor.

Thank you.

I've never had success using JS events on table rows, either. I think this is because a <td> sits on top of the <tr>, so whenever you click on a row, you're actually clicking on the <td>.

Try putting your onclick on all the <td>s. It works for me, but isn't very efficient.

Physicsguy,
Please tell me the code for calling Lightbox with JavaScript if at all possible anywhere.

You need to have the Lightbox script. I've never used it, but the instructions are pretty clear under the big 'How to use' heading

It entirely depends on what script you're using, and how you want it to be used.

Physicsguy,
It is not simple to me. I can link to Lightbox with the usual rel="lightbox" in the anchor tag, but I have searched the web and found only one reference to calling Lightbox with an event handler. I have tried it, but I can't make it work.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=49048

Are you skipping step 1? It looks like you need some other frameworks. Scriptaculous and Prototype, as well as the lightbox script.

Physicsguy,
That might be it. The solution given to me, suggested by jscheuer1 from dynamic drive forums, was to switch to "Slimbox 2".

http://www.digitalia.be/software/slimbox2

and using this simple code on this page:

http://code.google.com/p/slimbox/wik...avascript_code

It worked well for me, and it was valid XHTML
He did advise me to upgrade my jquery version.

<script  type="text/javascript"  src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.min.js">

So if I did omit the first step and your solution works, there are three ways to do it! (One more was suggested on Lightbox forums.)
Thank you.