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I’ve tried to make a link in the caption of a lightbox image. Of course I can place words in the title field, but no links. I’m using three lightbox images as an intro to my web page. I would like viewers to click on the image thumbnail, read the caption and then click on a link with in that caption. Any idea how to do this?

Thank you in advance.

-Jeff
rapidweaver v3.6.5

Is this even possible?

Jeff D - 24 February 2009 12:09 AM

I’ve tried to make a link in the caption of a lightbox image. Of course I can place words in the title field, but no links. I’m using three lightbox images as an intro to my web page. I would like viewers to click on the image thumbnail, read the caption and then click on a link with in that caption. Any idea how to do this?

Thank you in advance.

-Jeff
rapidweaver v3.6.5

I have it working on my Lightboxes using PlusKit.  Everything goes in the Image AltTag box.  I put title, hyperlink and lots of text in my lightboxes.  Here is what I do (you can add more text if needed:

Title Here
HyperlinkText Here, Location

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.

Also, I noticed that the code br works in lightbox, but doesn’t work in PhotoAlbum, /br does.

Hope that helps.  I have been working on this for weeks now. 

Now I have to figure out why IE opens my lightbox in a separate window and doesn’t display my text. 
ugh! I hate IE!

Julie

juliemania - 26 February 2009 07:12 PM

Jeff D - 24 February 2009 12:09 AM

I’ve tried to make a link in the caption of a lightbox image. Of course I can place words in the title field, but no links. I’m using three lightbox images as an intro to my web page. I would like viewers to click on the image thumbnail, read the caption and then click on a link with in that caption. Any idea how to do this?

Thank you in advance.

-Jeff
rapidweaver v3.6.5

I have it working on my Lightboxes using PlusKit.  Everything goes in the Image AltTag box.  I put title, hyperlink and lots of text in my lightboxes.  Here is what I do (you can add more text if needed:

Title Here
HyperlinkText Here, Location

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.

<b><i>Title Here</b></i> <br><a href="http://DOMAIN HERE">HyperlinkText Here</a>, Location<br><br> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.

Also, I noticed that the code br works in lightbox, but doesn’t work in PhotoAlbum, /br does.

Hope that helps.  I have been working on this for weeks now. 

Now I have to figure out why IE opens my lightbox in a separate window and doesn’t display my text. 
ugh! I hate IE!

Julie

Hey… Cool. Thanks! It works. Haven’t tried it with IE yet though.

Glad that works for you too!

I figured out what was causing my lightbox to open in a new IE window. 

It seems that IE doesn’t like the Don’t Copy snippet AND Lightbox.  Once removed the lightbox looks fabulous in all browsers.

Julie