BackBox
BackBox is my first project I am releasing for public use. It is a lightbox type image gallery which fully supports the back button function of the browser.
True, there are many scripts like this, but not many which shut the lightbox when the user clicks back. Anyway, you can download BackBox here.
BackBox is free of charge, and I also support it free, so if you are wanting to show your thanks, please link to: http://www.cloversigns.co.uk/ using the word “house signs”.
I am no longer supporting Backbox. Most of the questions have been answered already in other comments.
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Hello there, I really like your script – very smooth, but there’s something I’m noticing in the demo on the page, when I run the demo and then click close, it not only closes the image, but also goes back to the previous webpage in my browser. Is this just the case with the demo?
It shouldn’t do. What OS and browser version are you using? I just tried it in Firefox and IE6+IE7 and it worked as normal. Let me know.
Yes, you’re right… doesn’t do it where I’ve implemented it. Nice script. Here’s where I used it:
http://www.535belden.com/floorplans.php
You know what? Let me slightly ammend that last note… You’re right that it’s not occurring in IE or Firefox, but try it in Safari. That’s where I’m noticing that it’s happening. When I close the box it appears to revert the page back to the first page of the website that I brought up.
Sorry, I don’t have Safari, hence I can’t test that. I will have a think about it and see if there is a hack we can implement.
I will let you know and you can try/test for me.
Good day,
First let me admit to being completely new at javascript.
I came across your fantstic script while searching around for some form scripts. It was a pleasant find.
I’m attempting to put it into my site, but I’m having a small problem. When the page loads in the browser, IE7, and I click on the thumbnail, it displays the target picture from its storage location. If I use the browser back button and then click the thumbnail again, it launches the script and everything looks great.
Can you please help me out with this? I really want to use your application on my site.
Hi David,
Glad you like the script. I think what you are describing it that if you click an image before the page is finished loading, it doesn’t fire the lightbox? This is because the footer file at the bottom of the page has to load before the script will work.
However, I have just done some tests and it seems that the footer.js file can be in the head section with the other scripts. I am not sure why I thought it needed to be at the bottom. Try putting it in the head section and see if it works for you.
Let me know if you have any more questions. Put a link to the page which has issues and I can have a look.
Great job on the script. I was wondering if there was a way to add a mailto: link to the caption.
Thanks…
It should be quite easy to make a mailto link in the caption. The most robust would be to code it into the lightbox.js file.
If you don’t know javascript, this could be quite hard. Let me know. I can customise you your own lightbox.js file if you like. There would be a small charge.
Great job. Congratulations.
Certainly I will use them in a new photo-album or photo gallery project for personal use.
For a while, I am still considering use your script in another section of the above wedding invitation website for a friend of mine.
But indeed it is a great work.
Regards,
Jorge
this is a great little mod for lightbox.
one question though, even though the gallery works fine, the gifs for the close and preloader and auto slide show are all broken links.
i just unzipped it and uploaded it intact.
with lightbox these gifs are in the images folder, so i moved them here to see if that would fix it, still no luck.
any ideas?
If you have a problem with that, just open lightbox.js and hardcode the exact link to the images. The file is compressed, but they are quite easy to find (try searching for the name of the image or just “.gif”.
Let me know if there are any more problems.
thanks, that worked a treat in Firefox.
i use Firefox personally, and i havent upgraded to IE7 to be able to test for compatibilty, so im using IE6 with all the latest updates.
i opened the gallery in IE6 and the back button brings me to the previous page (in my case Firefox google homepage)
does backbox support IE6? or am i doing something wrong?
i looked back through the other posts and i came across this link, i looked at the HTML and everything looks as it should but when i click on any of the images it just brings up the image as a new page in the same window.
http://www.535belden.com/floorplans.php
is this just for me?
i dont mean to try to get you to solve me problems, i didnt pay for this so i dont expect support. but if you can see the gallery fine in the link above and i cant, just could hazzard a guess why?
thanks for taking the time to reply so soon (“,)
With the backbutton problem, it is normally that you need to open dhtmlhistory.js and hard code all the references to “blank.html”. This is what makes it work in IE6+IE7.
With the 535belden, His image gallery doesn’t fire for me either.
i tried hard coding the links, still doesnt work in IE6.
i also downloaded the JS files and images files and the html directly from your site by typing in the URLs to them all.
i uploaded this exact replica to my site and it still doesnt work in IE6. the only conlusion i can come to is we have differet web hosts and the differences between the packages is what is breaking the code.
unfortunately it looks like its back to Lightbox for the moment.
thanks for your replies, il check back here soon and see if anyone anyone else has the same problem
Liam,
Try putting the footer.js file right at the very bottom of the page and see if that changes anything. It can’t be the host – that shouldn’t change anything.
PS – if you download dhtmlhistory from our site, you would need to hardcode all the links to blank.html again. Whenever I have had a problem with this, it is because of that file.
Let me know. There is no reason it shouldn’t work for you.
http://www.conflictingpixels.com/backbox/backbox.html
this is a link to an exact replica of your files, the only thing i changed is the 3 references to blank.html in dhtmlHistory to:
http://www.conflictingpixels.com/backbox/blank.html
using your files, i didnt need to hardcode the links to the images in lightbox.js, which is a mystery in itself, as i had to do this with the zipped download version.
your dhtmlhistory file on the site has only references to blank.html. so i’ve tried it both ways now to no avail.
its very strange. thanks for your interest. if i get it working, il try to promote Backbox as often as i can
one last thing
“/backbox/js/customsignsfooter.js”
on your backbox.html page on your site, you reference this file twice, once in head tags and once before the closing body tag. is this a work around for something?
Thanks for the fine script. My version works fine,
I’m having problems with certain photos, they look squished. The same photos look OK on the PC?
Is there an image size or ratio I should use?
I’ve tried several photo sizes. 600×450 and even original size. Most are vert. photos that don’t look right, but not all.
Liam,
I just checked your page, and you do not have the reference to blank.html correct. It returns a 404 when I look for it. You need to upload that file to your server somewhere, browse to it and grab the correct URL. It is a real file with dat in it. When you browse to it, you will see a line of text which says: “blank.html – Needed for Internet Explorer’s hidden IFrame”.
Once you have that right, I think it will work fine.
On the matter of where the footer.js file should be, I had it in both places by accident. I am trying it in the header at the moment, and it seems to work. This would be the best place for it, so try it there and if you get any problems, let me know.
DanB – I guess you are using Safari? It seems like there are some problems with that. I don’t know what to recomend as I don’t have a Mac. If someone wants to buy me one…
No, WinXP sp2. Dell pc. Just ran the org. photos through Photoshop Web Photo Gallery to resize to 450 x 338, 358 x 450, 450 x 268. Photoshop generates a simple web photo page and all the photos display correctly (no distorion). I used the same photos in backbox and these three are distorted. Is there something in backbox.css that could be distorting them? All three photos had been cropped using Photoshop. How does backbox figure out the size of the display box?
I have never seen it distort, so it might just be your PC. The size of the display is calculated by the lightbox.js file. It shouldn’t get it wrong, but I can’t say that it will never. Do the images in my BackBox on the sample page distort?
Thanks a million!
i had ‘blank.htm’ instead of ‘blank.html’
i don’t know how that happened. well its working fine now.
im gonna use this in as many projects as i can. you’ve been great to dedicate your time to a floundering idiot like me!
No problem. If you can link to http://www.cloversigns.co.uk it would be much appriciated. Let me know any more questions you have.
il be starting on my personal site soon, and il certainly add a link to it.
i downloaded Flashlightbox, have you looked at it? the version i found doesnt allow for a close button (not that i can see) you have to click on the shadowed out space outside of the gallery to get back to the content.
i do mainly flash work, so it’d be nice to have it function like Lightbox or backbox.
Dont get me wrong, im not asking you to fix that for me!! just wondering if you know of a mod that can call it from a Flash file with a bit more useability.
I have seen Flashlightbox, but in my opinion it has some problems. If you know flash I am sure you could put a close button in.
However, Flash has problems, which is why Lightbox/Backbox is cool. You can show your images in a “flash” like way, but still have it supported without Flash installed. Just my opinion.
I think I figured out the problem. You can check it out on my prototype web site. There are two short shows. “old cabin”, “new farm”. Both shows have (2) duplicate photos, image04, image05.
Each show has the images stored in:
Cabin03/images/image01.jpg,image02.jpg…image04
second show has images stored in:
The Farm/P9140019.jpg…image04.jpg, etc.
And the “lightbox[hike], “lightbox[farm] to diferentiate the hrefs.
Backbox seems to get the wrong “w” x “h” when there are identical photo names in two shows. If I change the names in one “images” folder to image04a,for example, the problem goes away.
I tried Lightbox2 and it doesn’t have the problem.
I can work around the “naming” now know that I know the problem. Thanks again for the program.
I noticed a strange inconsistency with the positioning of the lightbox once it loads. When you open an image in IE7 it aligns to the left instead of the center. I get the same results when I click on the demo image above.
Thanks…
Hey, thanks for letting me know. You should be able to fix that by putting the customsignsfooter.js file right before the closing body tag. Then it seems to work fine.
I knew there was some reason to have it at the end! Let me know if that doesn’t fix it. I don’t use IE much, so these things easily go unnoticed.
Hello there, I’m seem to be having a problem with your lovely script. It seems the next, prev, close, stop, auto buttons don’t work in Firefox for some reason. However it seems to work in IE. Anyway here is where the script is @ http://ripperbusters.com/Ripperbusters/caseview.php?&id=18
Any help would be wonderful!
Seems that I have found out the problem. The images that I’m trying to display are to large I suppose and its throwing off the links? I’m not to sure but I made a smaller one and it seemed to have let me click on the buttons.
Very good script with nice effects, thanks a lot.
i had experince some problems like Liam with that “close” button, it has bring me on previous page after closing.
But i saw that in dhtmlHistory.js by link to blank.html stay a “?”, like this blank.html?, and when i hardcoded those blank.html links without “?” mark, everything works fine now.
Hello iv got your script working on my site in FireFox but in IE it does not work correctly when you click to launch it just brings you to a blank page with the grapes i have found if you hold shift and slick on it that it loads the grapes in a new window but also starts the script back on the orig page go check it out let me know what you think http://www.storesonlinepro.com/store/898513/page/1013639
Marc,
You need to move the /customsignsfooter.js file to directly before the tag. This might help. However, you are loading lots of scripts and have things like body onunloads etc, so they might interfere with the scripts. Try moving the reference to the footer.js file first.
Ok so i moved the footer.js to just before the tag and its still not working. So am i to understand that because of the templated design that im using this probably wont work?
here is the updated link
http://www.storesonlinepro.com/store/898513/page/1013639.html
I’m not sure. Try it on a page without the page_onunload command in there.
Well thank you for your help its not working. It would have been great to use your script its awsome. But im going to give up on it now unless you have any other ideas.
This looks great but is it possible to change the size of the border around the loaded image? That would be really good for a gallery site I update.
oops, sorry when I say border I mean whitespace.
Sure, you need to change it in the lightbox.js file. Find the line which says “var borderSize = 10″. That is the measurement in pixels. You may have to modify your CSS after you do this.
OK, that seems to change the border L, R, & bottom but not top. How can I get the top to change please?
I think I’ve answered my own question. imagecontainer{ padding – seems to do the trick. This is getting interesting
This seems to all work nicely in IE7 & Firefox but in Opera 9 the loaded image is sometimes “faded” (not every time it loads) and interestingly the background to the caption area is slightly grey whereas in Firefox and IE it appears the same colour as the loaded image area. Have you come across that before?
hi,
really like the script! i’m tring to put it on a page where i already have glider.js but they seem to generate a conflict.(works with firefox but not with IE).please have a look at http://www.stefangiftthaler.com/glider/dancing1.html
(click on thumbs for glider and on “contact” for backbox)i surely did a mistake but still don’t know how to fix it.
Try removing these two lines:
script type="text/javascript" src="js/prototype.compressed.js"script type="text/javascript" src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=js/effects"
You see, you already have those scripts in the page, so maybe loading them twice will cause problems. Leave the ones you have in already and just delete to 2 references in my code block.
actually the first 2 refere to glider.js. if i remove those you say the backbox image doesn’t load completely on firefox and on IE i get a “stack overflow at line:0″ alert.
really have no idea what to do to solve it.
Hi, enjoying your script very much. Is there a doc that discribes the various options available in the lightbox.js? I figured out that setting resize = 1 will resize each photo to fit the users screen size. How about changing the time the slides are displayed in Auto mode?
Yes, there are all sorts of setting in the file. I distributed the minified version, so they are hard to see. Here is a link to a “un-crunched” version.
http://www.huddletogether.com/js/lightbox.js
I would look through there, find what you need, then search for it in my script. Be wary about changing speeds. It can cause funny effects to have things go too fast or slow. Nice pics by the way!
Hi, thanks for this great script. I’m pretty new to this, I got it to work in Firefox, but in IE I just get a blank white page with my first image in the corner. I’ve been playing with it for ten hours now! I have it on http://www.kiwahscloset.com/tiergarten.html
if you have any suggestions I’d really appreciate it. Also, in Firefox my numbers (2 of 3 for example) are broken up onto two lines, any way to fix that? Maybe I’ve just butchered the whole thing? Thanks again.
You most likely are clicking too soon. You need to wait for the page to load before you click an image. However, you seem to have some Javascript errors on the page as well. Sorry, don’t have time to diagnose.
Hi, this is a very nice script, thank you very much!! However I have 2 little problems, first of all, everything works well on IE, but in firefox, the number line (just like Dena said) broken into 2 lines, and the Next button is out of the white container. Is there any way to fix it? I tried to resizeBorder = 30 or even 80 to make the white container bigger, but it won’t work. Any thing is, is there any way that I can resize the pictures in the white container bigger? Thank you so much for your great job!!
Btw, here is the link, i just removed the check login function, so that you can access the page without register. Thanks!
http://www.americaarts.com/testdirectory/fMain.php
Hi Eddie,
I think you are having problems because the images are too narrow. If they were a bit bigger, it would work fine.
Sorry rupertolson,
This is the page that actually having the problem, http://www.americaarts.com/testdirectory/pMain.php
I have to different size of the pictures, but the problem still exist. It works really well on IE, but not the firefox, would that be the problem of the size of the pictures or I have to modify something in backbox.css? Thanks!
Hello,
Thank you very much for providing this script for image galleries. It’s exactly for what I need.
I’m testing my site in Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer using both Macs and PC.
In IE6 on the PC, the blank.gif shows as a completely black frame. Is there a way to fix this? In Safari on the Mac, when I click the close button it takes me to the previous page, not the current page. Can this be easily resolved? In Firefox on the Mac, it works flawlessly. Thanks again!
Disregard that last message. It’s meant for the creator of the script.
Great script, thanks, only a quick question .
Is there a limit to the number of photos you can use in the script, I get to 6 and then nothing happens, although it reads of 11 say.
Well done for he script and site
There shouldn’t be a limit. Are the images there, that you are trying to get? When a image is missing, it will just sit and spin.
Hi, great script, I’m wondering why the history div is necessary? I’ve been using lightbox on my blog for a while and going thru and adding a history div around each of the lightbox links is a bit tedious, and glancing at the JS I can’t immediately see why the footer JS can’t fire a function to run thru (like lightbox does) and re-write the onclicks and append the history function.
Good idea. Give it a try and see. Let me know and I can modify the script.
Well, I’ve got it somewhat working, but it seems to be ignoring my return false at the end of the onclick and either going to the same page again or following the link tag and I can’t seem to capture an error. Is this something you’ve run into before?
Can you send the URL? I don’t really have much time at the moment, but I can have a quick look.
Many thanks for your help, a nights sleep and checking the html worked.
I will be adding to my site very soon.
Thanks agin, great job
http://www.cloversigns.co.uk/backbox/backbox.html
It’s working fine for me in Firefox, but in IE 7, after clicking on the picture, IE shows only the first JPG on a blank page, on the left top side.
Any ideas to solve this?
I’d like to use the script on my site.
Thanks!
nice project…
First of all, thanks for developing this slide show. It looks great and works well except for an issue I am having with it. It doesn’t seem to work for larger images in Firefox. I tried putting an image that was 1000px wide and 500px high, and the menu on the slide show stops work in Firefox. You can use the close button, the next, anything. Was just wondering if you knew an easy answer as to how to fix this or even if you could tell me the image size limitation so I can make sure that all my images are below this limit. Thanks!
First of all thanks for developing this slide show. It looks great and works well except for an issue I am having with it. It doesn’t seem to work for larger images in Firefox. I tried putting an image that was 1000px wide and 500px high, and the menu on the slide show stops work in Firefox. You can use the close button, the next, anything. Was just wondering if you knew an easy answer as to how to fix this or even if you could tell me the image size limitation so I can make sure that all my images are below this limit. Thanks!
Hello, thanks for the script. Very cool. I wanted to ask if there was a way to replace an image with a video. I am starting to do make some tutorials and it would be really cool if I could get this to work. Thanks Alot
I’m not sure about the image sizes. You can modify the script and have it run videos. Look up “greybox” or “thickbox” I think they have done it. You should then be able to hack the history to make it work like this.
Is there a way you can make it automatically scroll through them rather than it being something to turn on?
Greetings Rupert,
Overall the backbox image viewer is fantastic, thanks so much.
I am experiencing a few issues though and was hoping that you could help. I am using backbox to present my design portfolio.
Issue 1: I am sometimes displaying larger images and the overlay or transparent screen does not cover the whole page. To see an example:
– http://www.lisamkos.com/portfolio.html
– click on the second image (of roses)
– view the 3rd image in the set (letterhead)
The bottom portion of the image does not have the overlay image extending the whole height of the page. I have no clue how to fix it and have spent a while today trying to learn to read javascript but no luck!
Issue #2
When viewing a set of images, in Firefox the “Auto” button never changes, to “Stop.” The slideshow will run just fine but just that the “Stop” button never appears. Strangely enough, it does work correctly in IE.
I really appreciate your help in advance. Many, many, thanks.
Lisa
The auto button works for me in Firefox. I’m, not sure what would cause that.
It does seem to have trouble when showing huge images. I guess you need to keep the images smaller than 750×600px or something like that.
Hi Rupert,
The auto button works, it just never changes to the “stop” button once it is flipping through the pictures.
Do you have any suggestions on where in the code I could change the height of the transparent background, so that when I show larger images it extends?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Best,
Lisa
Hi Rupert,
I finally found a fix for the overlay issue.
If you have any suggestions on why the “stop” button isn’t appearing in firefox i would really appreciate it.
Hope you are having a nice day.
Hi Lisa,
Could you tell me what is the fix for the overlay issue, because I have the same problem.
Thanks
Rupert
Great script. A few other people have mentioned an issue with IE just showing the first picture on a blank page in the top left corner… just wondering if you, or anyone, has found the solution to this aside from needing to wait longer for the script to load. I have no issues with it in safari.
Thanks so much!
Hello Rupert,
I use your back box image viewer on a website for a friend, which I am building. Everything is fine, works great. However, when close (button) is closed the page returns to the Top of the page. I’d rather it stay right where it is on the page. How do I change this action?
I have self taught Java script education.
However, I have no idea where to look for what I want to change. Thanks so much for offering this direct support.
Is it easy enought to change? It must be. What am I missing. Where..thx. Lesa.M.
That’s a tough one, not sure what you do about that. It only jumps back to the top in Internet Explorer. Firefox is fine.
Hello,
Great script. I was just wondering if there was a way so that when you are in the middle of a slide show that you could right click and have an option to save the photo.
Thanks
Good Question. The easiest would be to display a permalink to the image in the control box from which you could download the image. That would be easy.
That was easy … Thanks
I would like use your fabulous backbox on a french website.
Would you please tell me where I can change words for french language :
“next” for “suivant”
“previous” (retour)
“1 of 5″ ‘(1 a 5)
“close” (fermer)
“auto” (diapo)
Thank and bravo !
close and auto are images. You need to replace them in the image file with ones you make. The other commands are in the javascript. Open the javascipt file in notepad, then search for the work and replace it. Let me know if you get stuck.
My website currently uses lightbox for image displays. My site uses frames and for my menu to work across frames I have to use
.
I am currently developing a test site on my pc to change to your excellent Backbox. The above onload script however makes backbox fail to load, this script worked fine with lightbox. If I omit this script Backbox works but the menus dont. The only solution I can think of is to find a Menu system that works across frames without using an onload script in the body tag. Is there a solution to this problem?
Good day,
I love your script, but I can not get the close feature to work correct. Please take a look at: http://valueatvs.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/60
and tell me what I am doing wrong. I need to make the close button return to the original url.
Thank you in advance.
Hi Walter,
I don’t really know why this is happening. Looks like your pages are dynamically generating in PHP, so maybe that has something to do with it.
However, the first thing you need to do is correct all the dhtml history tags. Where it says “location 1″, that needs to stay as that. You have location 1, location 2 etc. This is not correct. Make the location the same and see if that works better. The history is not working on your site at the moment, so something must be wrong.
I changed all them all to “location 1″, still no go.. Any other suggestions?
It must be due to the PHP, because it works fine on my computer and a standard .html. I really wanted to use this feature on my site. I guess I maybe can’t.
My earlier question re: IE not working correctly seems to be resolved because it seems newer version of IE are fine and I was trying it on an older version…
However… I have another question that may or may not be related to the BackBox…
The pages I am making have rollovers to all the links which work fine… until… I add backbox onto that particular page… I’m somewhat of a self-taught semi-novice with this stuff and just curious if there would be correlation between adding the backbox and then my rollovers not working. This only happens in IE… safari is fine.
Here’s an example of a page where the rollovers do not work:
http://www.skylightstudiosinc.com/PublicCommissions/Memorials/washingtonmonument.html
and here’s one without backbax added yet and they work:
http://www.skylightstudiosinc.com/PublicCommissions/Veterans/charlestownkoreanwar.html
I know this is sort of off topic but figured I’d give it shot… thanks!
Ok so, I tried the normal lightbox and it worked. I do not like the normal one as much as yours so please help me
. The problem is in the lightbox.js, can you please see if you can find the problem? Like I said I really like your version far better and want to use it.
Thanks.
Walter
sorry to be such a PIA, I seem to got it to work, but now in IE its giving me a error when you use close:
Line: 11
Char: 3790
Error: `chid` is undefined
Code: {}
Can you help me with this one..
There is at least one problem that needs to be fixed. You need to move your file called “blank.html” to the correct place. It is looking for it in here:
http://www.skylightstudiosinc.com/PublicCommissions/Memorials/js/blank.html
If you put it there, you will find things much improved.
Hello,
I do web design for fun, and I came across your script which is exactly what I needed. Thanks in advance! It looks great!
I have a question: When viewed with IE7 the image seems to be slightly zoomed in – it is definitely larger than specified. When viewed with Firefox it is in the proper size. Is there anything I can do to fix that?
Thanks
Cristina
sir iam getting this.listener has no properties when i used in Mozilla.Iam not getting lightbox in IE6.Can any body reply me soon i want urgent solution i need to give to tl.
You are missing the Footer File. It gets a 404 when I try it. You need to upload it to here:
http://www.avantisystemsusa.com/new/products/doors/pivot_doors/js/customsignsfooter.js
That should sort it out.
hello! sry my language;
great script!!
i have one problem, on my site, i have flash object and when i click on backbox, i see flash object, but that flash object should disapear in background.
thanx
Hi Rupert,
I am using dreamweaver to build my new website. Its not live but I have used your back_box slide show and I have inserted into my page and have modify it to use multiple galleries. I like it a lot!!!!
My Problem is when I run my page with IE 7 and then click close, it not only closes the image like it should, but also goes back to the previous webpage in my browser. I’m not sure why it is doing this. I haven’t changed any of the external JS files, just the code to place on my page.
I hope the javascript created by dreamweaver for my main navigation is not interfering with your back_box script.
Please Advise me, I know the the basics but this has placed me in a rut.
Thanks
Hi Rupert,
I downloaded back box and just made a plain page in dreamweaver and tried it out. (I extracted the backbox zip into a folder and saved the webpage that I pasted all the code to, into the same folder)
It works fine until I copy the current back box page URL and go to a different site, paste the original back box URL and
clicked on the back box image and presto when I close out the Back box, it went back to the other website.
I’ve tried this with IE7 only and it works awesome with Foxfire no problems with that browser. I don’t know what is on javascriptkit.com but it seams to work fine in IE7 with the same scenario above.
Thanks
Joe
Can you post a url to the page that has problems? Then I can have a look.
ok just wait one weak : )
the backbox is no problem with Firefox but when i use IE to view the page, it will just link to the picture file. no backbox effect what so ever. need help urgent
Alvin,
I need to see the url of the page. Also, you need to let the javascript load before you click the image.
Please everyone – give me a link to look at – otherwise I can’t do anything. Plus, read the other comments, because some questions get asked quite often.
Hi Rupert,
I just loaded my new website to my domain and try it out before writing back to you. It works now in IE7 with no problems. Maybe my problems were with just launching the webpage from dreamweaver from the desktop of my computer and not my website that is live on the web. I should have tested it from my website before, so dumb of me ;-(.
Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out! Here is the link if you would like to see your Back Box in action. I still have my old website running so this link is to a folder of my new website. http://66.49.185.46/Pure%20Images%20Website%202/galleries.htm#
Hello,
I just installed your wonderful script and it works just fine. No problems with it at all. However I have one issue. I have a flash piece on my website header and when I run the backbox script it show up at the top. Is it possible to change the x,y coordinates? to show in the middle? or at a specific range? OR possibly show the image in front of my flash piece?
See it here:http://www.avalar.biz/stateoftheart.aspx
I should mention that when I scroll down one bit It show up (still at top) below the flash piece.
Thanks.
You can probably mess around with the javascript to change where the backbox appears but I don’t recomend it.
Here is some advice though. That piece of flash cloud is 50Kb. Why slow down the page loading so you can have fancy floating clouds? Take them off and solve 2 problems.
Hope that helps.
Hi,
I posted a question yesterday and it seems to have disappeared now….not sure if I did anything wrong.
Anyway, basically I downloaded and installed the script and it is working just fine. It is a Great Script…and I LOVE it.
My question was similar to the posting above. Is there a fix if you run the script off a site with Flash.
http://www.riverrunlindsay.ca/index88.htm (click the link on the left “Under Construction” click to view images) to see the installed script and also the problem I am talking about.
Thank u.
I hadn’t approved it yet. Taking a few minutes off on the weekend etc.
I can’t really help you with this flash problem. I don’t use flash at all, so am a bit clueless.
Here is what I would try:
Wrap the flash in a div that you can make “hidden” when lightbox is running. Unhide when it closes.
Sorry
HELLO! And here is my problem:
http://www.fasaderstvo-vezaj.com/Default2.aspx
the click on link -tukaj-
you will see what is a proble and if u can tell me how to solve it! Thanx! Edyn Slowenia.
As I told the people above, I don’t really know what to do about the flash problem. However, you don’t need to do what you are doing in flash. It just slows things down.
Hello,
I’ll start by thanking you for sharing this nice piece of software!
Now, the question is if there’s a way of loading the photos/URL somehow dynamically. For example, when loading the page I don’t have all the information of what photos will be displayed… depending on users input a different set of photos will be shown. I want to get those photo’s URLs through AJAX and then using some javascript calls I need to display those photos. Is this possible?
And one more thing: can I have the source of lighbox.js file uncompressed?
Thank you.
I have emailed you the file uncompressed. Let me know if you don’t get it.
I don’t know if you can load the photos using AJAX. You can certainly build the array of pictures on page load.
Try to make the lightbox function reload after the AJAX call has returned. You may have to just try it out.
Let me know if you manage and post a link. Cheers
Thank you for your quick answer.
Now that I have the uncompressed script I can see that the initialization function is init(). I suppose I should call this one after the AJAX call. In fact I see that this function can be called only once… so I think I should call initLightbox() function.
Yes, you may want to have the lightbox not load until after the AJAX returns, then call it.
Hi Rupert,
Love the script and think it would be quite useful. I only have a problem with the Auto, Stop and Close jpgs. Their just not there. Is there something I haven’t done? I’m using IE7.
Your images are in the wrong place. They 404, so they must not be there. Try uploading to the correct location.
http://people.aapt.net.au/~rod_mandy/images/
is where they should be.
ok, thanx !!
I’m having the issue others have mentioned with firefox. When an image is below 350 pixels wide, the Next button and sometimes the Close button (if the caption is to long) gets bumped to a second line and leaves the white frame. Adjusting the border size has no affect on the bottom menu area. I’m hoping for an answer that isn’t…use bigger photos..
Great work and I love the script!!
I’ve also just noticed that IE6 is not properly displaying my first image. It’s squishing it. IE was handling the smaller images fine. So to fix my firefox issue I increased the size of my images. Now IE wants to compress them.
The link is called PHOTOS about a 1/4 way down.
http://www.virtualpolymercompounds.com/test.asp
Hi Rupert, great script.
I’m working on implementing the back box at this location: http://www.heritagemillworkandwindows.com/gallery
I have no problems with the script when testing in FireFox, however when testing with IE 7 the back box is aligning to the left side of the page (instead of centered). The black background fade out effect works the first time a gallery is launched in IE 7, but every subsequent time I open a gallery the black fade out effect doesn’t happen. Any ideas what might be causing this?
Additional information for the above problem: I’ve tested in IE version 6 and all is well.
I’ve tried changing the location of the customsignsfooter.js file with the following results:
When file is in the head section the lightbox is triggered when a thumbnail is clicked, but the location of the light box is bad.
When the file is at the bottom of the body section, the lightbox does not trigger (the first image is opened in a blank page). I’ve waited for the page to fully load with the same results here.
When the file is both in the head and at the bottom of the body section, the lightbox triggers, but once again the location is bad (left aligned).
Interestingly enough, the backbox performs fine with IE 7 on your demo page. I’m at a loss for why it would left align on my site. Any advice you can give would be much appreciated.
Once again, great script.
Hey Rupert, last comment from me, I swear.
I’ve got everything working fine now in IE7, firefox and IE6.
I found an image that was being preloaded on my page (I didn’t do the original design of these pages). This image was completely seperate from the gallery functions I was working on. When I removed the preload image function everything started working fine. You might want to make a note somewhere that preloading images could possibly break the script in IE7.
As a side note and an answer to a few inquiries I saw above, images that have a width smaller then about 400px will cause the “next” and “previous” buttons to spread out onto two lines. Increasing the width of the images corrects this problem.
Thanks again for the awesome script! I’ll be providing a link back for sure.
A good work around if the previous and next buttons are being split onto two lines is to go into the lightbox.js file and change the word “previous” to something shorter like “back”.
Hi Rupert,
I’ve managed to solve the dynamic load of images into the gallery. I’ve build a small script that might be useful to others: http://miscapp.freehostia.com/dynamiclb/
Thanks again.
Hi Jorg,
Thats Cool. Thanks for posting the link. BTW, the first link to backbox on the page is bad. You need .html not .htm.
Hi Rupert, I just can’t seem to get the back button to work for Internet Explorer (I am using IE7). I have downloaded all the files including the blank.html file and all the .js files and placed all the files in the exactly the same way you did (http://www.cloversigns.co.uk/backbox/backbox.html).
I just don’t know how to hard code the references to blank.html in the dhtmlHistory.js file. I noticed that “blank.html” appears 3 times in dhtmlHistory.js:
1) if(self.isInternetExplorer())self.iframe.src=”blank.html?”+newLocation;
2)’ “+”name=’DhtmlHistoryFrame’ id=’DhtmlHistoryFrame’ “+”src=’blank.html?”+initialHash+”‘>”+”");
3)if(this.isInternetExplorer()&&this.getIFrameHash()!=hash){this.iframe.src=”blank.html?”+hash}else if(this.isInternetExplorer()){return}this.currentLocation=hash;
How would I hard code the dhtmlHistory.js file so that the back button will work on IE?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I need to see a link to the page so I can have a look. Please post one.
Hello everyone,
To start off I want to say thanks for reading and any unput you might have…
I developing a website for the Volunteer Fire Department I am a member of. It can be found [URL="http://www.tnavfd.com"]here[/URL]
What the problem is when I use more than 15 images on the back box viewer it screws up the black bar at the top… squares that seem to maybe be a CSS problem? A page example can be found [URL="http://home.comcast.net/~tnavfd/Blank4a.html"]here[/URL]
I was looking in the post but have not seen anyone else with this problem so maybe this might be something “new”. LOL
Thanks Moe
It seems to work fine in Firefox, but not at all in IE6. I think you have some problems you need to look at. Something is wrong.
Hello,
I am having troubles with the slideshow loading in a frame. The photo to start the slideshow is located in a frame, but I would like the slideshow to appear over the entire screen. Is it possible to reference a “_top” location anywhere in the script to redirect the slideshow to display full screen?
Thanks,
Mike
HI
midblowing script written by you, i want use that in my site but here some query
It works in firefox very nice But what about IE6
does backbox support IE6? or am i doing something wrong?
let me know suggetion
Robert,
Im a web designer / webmaster in the USA born in England(check out bishopstoke Hants) My question is can the pics be adjusted for 16×9 ratio. I have not tried the code but will include over the weekkend in my site development beta testing first. Loved the clean looking graphics of the Slide show.
Keep up the good work
Rupert,
Sorry for the incorrect name the first time. Great job, constructed a new page an inserted the code as described worked perfectly in IE7 have not tried any others browser as of yet. It seeems others are having problems with IE 6 will advise if our site has the same results. I like the clean looks as I have constructed several sites with galleries http://www.sobagalleries.com and brcthe governor.com each having a slide shows. I think this code works well as you always on closing end up on the page you started from. Couple of ?
Can you adjust the base graphic to a cameo say 130 x 87 rather than 400 x 300. The next ? can the drop down graphic be adjusted to match the Picture size 0f 400 x 300 they are slightly off in matching up in width and its obvious when you view it in a web browsers any suggestions.
Thanks.
Brian C.
The Governor
Rupert,
Note very new at Java scripting
The only problem I have in IE7 is that the close Feature returns to the home page and not the page of origination. Works well on my bata test site but now when I uploaded all the files as is into the base directory which is my developed web site constructed in Front Page it defaults to home page. I have tried removing the header script which defaults to the home page “on click” to no avail. Its a great script as I have construct several sites with display slide shows and virtual tours and this fits in well with the clients brading visuals.
Any suggestions to my problem?.
Brian C.
The Governor
You need to show me the page that has the problem. Plus, if you Front Page to make your site, who knows what sort of problems you might have. Get dreamweaver if you want to progress.
Hi
I am having the same problem as a previous poster.
“I have no problems with the script when testing in FireFox, however when testing with IE 7 the back box is aligning to the left side of the page (instead of centered). The black background fade out effect works the first time a gallery is launched in IE 7, but every subsequent time I open a gallery the black fade out effect doesn’t happen. Any ideas what might be causing this?”
Also, i have various other scripts running on the page and one (a slide show script) appears to not be working now. This uses a body onload command, could this be causing conflict problems.
http://www.brocars.co.uk/backbox_trial.html
Hope you can help
Great script Rupert … thanks a million.
pj
Greetings.
I have inputted all the code in the correct spots and when I click the image to start the backbox it starts and breifly shows the first image and disappears. the backbox quits it seems like. so I click the image again, and it keeps doing it.
In safari, flock, firefox, iCab, camino, and Opera.
What is happening. It starts then stops.
Hey,
Very nice script. I have tried to encorporate this into my site but am having difficulty getting this to fire. you can see here: http://www.djadamash.com that if you click on gallery it wants to load the image but then closes right away. Any ideas why?
Thanks for your time! KUTGW
Adam.
Hi! The script works great! I do have one request though! I am trying to use this on a website that has a horizontal layout. The challenge is that the image and the overlay only pop up on the far left part of the site which I figure has to do with the height and width of the overlay? Is there a simple way for me to adjust this for a horizontal site? Thanks in advance. Tracy
Hi Rupert, as everyone says great script. I would like to use it more but still suffer from the IE7 problems that many people have reported – images aligning to the left, shadow effect slow etc. works perfectly in other browsers – you can see exactly what I mean at http://www.charlieowendesign.com/work.html (viewed in IE7). I still can’t find a definitive answer/resolution to this on your site can you help?
Hi – just so nobody is confused by the above link I gave (on March 8, 2008) I have changed this page to use Lightbox JS v2.04 and it now works fine in all browsers including IE7. But I would still like to know if anyone has an answer to the above problem
Well, I had to download and copy the code that is in this page, and I got it to display my images by adding them to the folder.
After many hours of analyzing and figuring it out, or so I thought, I transfered the code.
I got ONE (1) image to display, but the next, auto, and close links do not work.
The code that is downloaded and the instructions do not match what this site has on it.
Not sure how anyone is getting this to work properly, but free and open source is great, if it works and is easily understood how to do it.
Looks like just what I’ve been looking for. Before I implement, I’ve noticed that in Lightbox you can click anywhere outside the image to close and return to the main page. Is that possible with BackBox? I’ve looked at your demo with Firefox & IE and that doesn’t seem to be the case. Makes it much easier to close than clicking a small”close” image.
Martin,
Sorry that you find it so hard to get things going. I still can’t see the URL that has the script on it, so please leave a link to that and I can have a look.
Because I am working on other projects at the moment, I haven’t been answering may comments – but when I have a quick look, I can see that things are not installed correctly.
The file called “customsignsfooter.js” goes right at the bottom of the page.
If you install the scripts correctly, the backbox will work right 9 times out of 10.
I hope everyone commenting on this blog is using Firefox. If your not, you should be (presuming you are building your own site). If you are using Firefox but don’t have Firebug installed, you only have yourselves to blame if you can’t find problems on your pages.
Hi Rupert, great piece of work, and thanks for a giveaway!
I have a problem with close and stop buttons – they simply do not appear on my graph/photos, however the (invisible) link is active, but the gif’s are simply not there. Tried everything, now you can perhaps help. (note – this site is only a mini test for BackBox). Many thanks
I am trying to add the backbox and I copy and paste all the information on the paper but all I get is a unloaded image and everytime I click the image it just loads a new screen. Any help. Thanks
Hello again! I GOT it / The lightbox.js needed to be modified !!!
Happy Eastern to all /
Can i use this script in a .jsp page.What are the changes i have to make in dhtmlhistory.js file.For example my jsp page name is:citydeatils.jsp.Please help me
Hi your script is fantastic, works easily and is so good for us newbies to java. (or in my case complete novices). Thank you.
I have only one question and have seen it mentioned before, but you are obviously very busy (or I am stupid and have missed your reply. The quick fix of altering the image size will not work in my case:
How do you change the size of the image data box. Where I have a longwinded caption it runs further down the page than the size of the box.
I have tried to find it in both the css and the lightbox.js but cant for life of me!
Would appreciate your help when possible.
Thanks
Jacs
Hi!
That’s a great script! Well, i’m a very beginner and it’s the first one I use. But anyway, it’s easy to set up and it looks very good.
I just had a little problem with the gifs, they didn’t appeared but by reading the comments here I found out easiky where to add the right links.
So Thank you very much for that script! and You’re indirect help!
Hi,
This is a great script. I’ve read through all the comments but didn’t seem to find the problem I am having, it works great in firefox but in IE6, when you click on the auto and close gifs, they disappear, I hard coded the gifs in the lightbox.js file to read ../images/close1.gif. Does anyone know why these 2 gifs (auto & close) disappears?
Thanks
hi, nice script you made here!
But i’ve got a problem loading the backbox in ie6. Firefox works awesome.
When clicking an image in ie6 it just opens the image in a blank page.
I changed the reference to blank.html in the js, changed the customsignsfooter.js a few time but without any succes. i even waited a long time before i clicked an image.
I’ve putted all my links into one div now, cause it should give the same as tagging each link with a div. Anyway i tried them both! Still no luck
http://www.resto-debrug.be/test/restaurant.html
Can you have a look at the site and tell me what i’m doing wrong?
Hi Rupertolson, do you have a bit of time to check what I’m doing wrong :s
I’m searching and trying for over 3 days now and it still wont work in IE :s
You’re version on this site works, so it’s a bit strange. See previous post from me to check the link (April 9, 2008).
Anyway, I’m going to put the site officially on line next Monday (April 14). I can always find the IE bug later.
After the fourteenth of April the link will be http://www.resto-debrug.be/restaurant.html
Thanks in advance and nice projects you’re working on!
hi,
Great script works a dream in Firefox.
I too am having issues with backbox working in IE. ON my test page http://www.trestletables.biz/trestletables_2ft6inWIP.html
I have tried coding the dhtlHistory.js file with the absolute link to the blank.html file. (http://www.trestletables.biz/blank.html?) but this still did not fix it.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks again for some great JS.
This script is awsome. It works fine in Safri and Firefox. But in IE it loads but its not center, it goes to the left. When i resize the browser window it centers again. Do you know what I can do for it to stay centered? Thanks.
I enter my email wrong sorry.
I have tried your script.It is working great.But i had problem when it comes to IE6.When i am clicking on image it is showing image on new page.Please somebody help me.
Thank’s in advance.
I am considering using backbox to display animals on my website. This will replace my current “popup” routine. To do this I need to include info in the “caption” that will include some html.
If you go here http://www.amazonreptile.com/main_2.php3?section=s&full and click on a link my popup will work. I want backbox to display the name – scientific name – description and price info. Can you help and at what price for my commercial site?
Thanks
Scott Solar
hi again,
i tried it again today and i know why it doesn’t work on my website in IE.
I have an function. This javascript function (in html head) creates div’s with output.
http://www.resto-debrug.be/test/restaurant.html
If i delete the onload function the backbox runs almost correctly.
http://www.resto-debrug.be/test/restaurant2.html
The background in IE after clicking an image is not on the whole page. But it works
Very nice, clean, and works GREAT! Thank you very much for such a well developed solution!
I have one question. I am trying to have multiple galleries on a single page. I am using the mootools to show hide different divs at a time to expose a particular gallery. When I have multiple links to the backbox, it loads the correct image, but collects and displays all of the hidden linked images. For example I have multiple portfolios and it will load image ‘6 of 18′ when selecting the second gallery (second gallery starts with the 6th image link on the page).
Is there a way to specify which image links are associated with each gallery?
hi, i’m a newbie in javascripting and html. i found this great script of yours and i think it’s the best so far. However i tried this script in a webpage i’m editing in dreamweaver 8 but when i test the page in a browser (firefox or IE) it just opens another window when the image thumbnail is clicked.
i don’t know how to hardcode the blank.html so i haven’t done it. do you think that’s why this doesn’t work? Does this script only work when the webpage is uploaded to a server and not when you’re testing in your PC only?
Hi, I love your script its fantastic.
Was wondering if it’s possible to have multiple thumbnails on one page and to have of them opening up to separate slideshowS.
So I can have a thumbnail for each client and when a thumb is clicked it will bring up a photo box/slideshow for that client alone.
Is this possible?
Kaylan, having the same issue with EI 5-7 when clicking on an image I am taken to a new page with a single image in the top left corner. Works like a dream in Safari and Firefox… I am developing a new site.
I love this thing, but and it is working great in most instances. But a few Mac friends are getting strange results. The tell me the each image is loading twice. When they hit the next button or run auto they get each mage twice then it moves to the next and gives that image twice. I don’t have a Mac and am not sure which browser they are using (I would guess Safari)so I have yet to see it myself. Have you heard of this or have any suggestions? I have zero experience with Java coding but am willing to pay if you have a fix. Thanks
Thanks for this great little script, I love it and it is working fine in most cases. My one problem seems to be Macs with Safari. I have seen it at a friends and had it reported by others that when using safari each image is diplaying twice in the backbox viewer. Any clues as to how I might fix this.
Here is one of my pages:
http://www.milner-photo.com/utah_industrial_photography.htm
I did send some links of other peoples pages above using backbox to a friend using safari and he reported that they ran fine, so there must be a conflict of some kind on my page.
Thanks, Bill
Hey Bill,
Nice photo’s and website! I am traveling at the moment, so it would be hard to tell anything about your code, but you seem to have it all right. I don’t have access to a Mac so have never tried it out.
The one thing is that you have other scripts running on the page. Try taking them off and see if you get the same problem. Javascript sometimes doesn’t play nicely with other bits of script.
Thanks for the donation. Let me know if you get more problems.
There souldn’t be any other scripts running on the pages with back box.
Ther is this-
= 0 && versionnum = 0 && versionnum
Which I ma not even sure what it is. I built this site with a samll knowledge of HTML and use of a bad WSIWYG editor so maybe it threw it in there. It just looks like something that directs the use of certain Java versions for different browsers, but it looks like they are botht he same. Think I can toss it out?
Thanks for looking and your comments.
Bill
Well it looks like that Java code I pasted in didn’t show up very well for some reason to the last message, but it basically says something about
window onerror is null
manufacturere = navagator app name
if netscape = version 4.0
then location href = file/error.html
If microsoft = version 4.0
then location href = file/error.html
I guess it is just referance to an error page for people using old bowsers of netscape and IE.
I will cut it out and see if that helps.
Thanks
I’m relatively new to javascript and am having a terrible time with this one – although I love it on the sample.
Here’s my page:
http://www.luminaphoto.com/gallery1.shtml
Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks so very much.
Hi.
The demo looks fantastic! I am thinking about switching from the greybox to this.
I am attempting to test it and I am trying to display a link rather than an image.
ie click the link on our site and have the web page display in the box.
I can’t get the link to display at all.
I have altered my .php to html.
That seemed to have no effect.
Also where is the “z index”?
I have a flash presentation that is trumping the box.
Thanks
elizabeth
It looks like I still have issues with the Mac guys. I took out the other Java and my friend still reports the double image displaying when using Safari. I also ran into a guy using Camino in a coffee shop the other day and on his whenever he clicked the next button it closed th backbox viewer. Wish I could straigten this out since many photo buyers are designers using Macs.If you have any other suggestions please let me know.
Thanks, Bill
I have 2 questions:
1) I have a js menu and it stays on top of the image. How can I get my image on top of the menu?
2) how can I change the position of the image?
Thanx in advance
J-P
Hi, rupertolson
First i want to say that the script is excelent, but i have some problems with it.
I want to remove the comments field and i want to translate the ‘previous’, ‘next’and ‘of’ words and i dont find them in the lightbox.js file.
If you can i want the reply to my email too, as soon as posible.
Sorry about my bad english, and thx again for the script.
This is a very nice script. The only problem I am having is in EI, once you click on the image the images popup to the left of the screen. Could you help me out? Thanks in advance.
James
Great script…works perfect on PC but when run from the website several of the images are expanded (images 4 & 5). These images are a very similar size to the others (they are all about 350 x 260) so can’t understand why only these two are affected. Any ideas?
Just to add on from my last mail…I viewed the page on IE6 today in work and everything was perfect! Came home and tried again on laptop
Is there perhaps a known issue with IE7 ?
(after reboot) which runs IE7 and the same two images are being expanded…stange
Fixed it…please ignore my previous two emails. I changed the filenames of the offending two pictures and voila! Really can’t understand it (there was nothing wrong with the previous names)..perhaps they clashed with something? Small donation made for a great product. Thanks
Thanks for the donation Erik. Can’t explain, but at least it works.
Sorry about the lack of Mac support. If someone buys me a Mac, I might be able to help!! (Joking, don’t send me anything thanks.)
All the other comments are mostly down to installation problems by the looks of them. I am out of the country at the moment, and don’t have access to decent tools etc. Sorry about that.
Mr Olson,
Just wanted to thank you for the fantastic workmanship on a product so complex, yet, when in use, seems so simple that you take it for granted. I had been trying to create something simple, yet user friendly for a few months, but came across backbox, and it saved me hours of research! Absolutely outstanding!
Thanks!
-Dan
I just asked for friends to review my site, and everyone loves the pop-up action. The only “negative” feedback was that the photos cycled through too fast. I was looking at the code trying to discern the timing of the change from one photo to the next, but it was more detailed than my level of skill could comprehend.
(i.e., I’m an HTML dummy) Could you tell me which line(s) I’d need to adjust to slow the transition down a second or two? (I did read in an earlier blog that you didn’t recommend changing the timing, but I figured that might be for speeding it up instead of slowing it down(?)) Thanks again!!
Dan, you need to open up the lightbox.js file and look for the section that says:
{ loopInterval = slideDuration * 1000;}
and change that 1000 (it’s miliseconds, so 1000 is 1 second) to what ever you want.
At the very beginning of the file are some “resize speed” and “resize duration” numbers as well that you can play with. That effects the resizing effect.
I’m having the opposite problem of other people. The slide show works fine on my Mac in Safari. I doesn’t work on a PC. It brings up a new page with just the photo on it on a PC. So what did I do wrong? I really love the slide show and the visual effect. Just have to work out the bugs on my end.
I’ve built some nice galleries with this great script, however the latest project have brought some issues to light: my css seems to overlay the styles of the script itself (auto and close button). Also my client would like to have the auto slideshow option enabled by default… is there any way to manipulate the script in such a way? what compiler have you used for the compressed file? more info would be nice… please e-mail… cheers m8, keep on scripting!
Like the script.
When you click on the Merrijig pathway & bridge image thumbnail at http://www.drewsviews.com/construction/index.html, the BackBox doesn’t seem to work even though when I tested it locally on my pc, it worked fine. It is very frustrating not knowing why it is not working. Thanks
Pauline,
You need to follow the instructions. The ending needs to go right after the of the first image not the entire block of images like you have.
rupert,
followed the instructions and moved the end to after the first image but I still get the image in a new window, positioned in the left hand corner.
thanks
hi rupert, great script!!
im having problem with the first click on image.
in the first click, i get to the image url (showing the image with blank white page), then i need to click “back” in the explorer- and then when i click on the image everything working fine.
it happens both in firefox and IE.
how can i fix it? ty!~
rupert,
did you receive my last comment?
Hey,
great script. But I would like to remove the slideshow completly.
What have I to do?
Thank you!
Hi olson,
I used our script,it is working fine in my pc.But after i uploaded my project on server it is showing error
countdown is not defined
Hello thanks for great script..I have one problem..When I install this script on the same page where is flash movie and when I started yours script i see flash movie from the page but I only want to see picture that I select with your script..where is the problem..Thanks
(sorry for my bad english)
Hi, thanks for the script just what i was after.
I do have one issue though, i have a=some flash content at the bottom of my site and when backbox is in use it doesnt cover the swf file like it does with the html. Hope that makes sense, can you tell me how to fix this?
Kind Regards
Joe
Fantastic script,
I have found the scripts (Cut & Paste BackBox Image Viewer) and (Lightbox image viewer 2.03a) by searching, they are fantasist script its works very nice and smoothly, very claver script I have test it, and create some samples its work perfect well done.
then I tried to use to my own website which contains flash files banner, photo viewer and a menu, which is created by Sothink DHTML Menu 8, when I run the script or gallery the photo it show behind the flash files and especially the menu too. So am asking some hints or help if you have any comments with that problem, I will appreciate that if you can help me by some comments.
Fantastic script,
I have found the scripts (Cut & Paste BackBox Image Viewer) and (Lightbox image viewer 2.03a) by searching, they are fantasist script its works very nice and smoothly, very claver script I have test it, and create some samples its work perfect well done.
then I tried to use to my own website which contains flash files banner, photo viewer and a menu, which is created by Sothink DHTML Menu 8, when I run the script or gallery the photo it show behind the flash files and especially the menu too. So am asking some hints or help if you have any comments with that problem, I will appreciate that if you can help me by some comments.
How do you add music?
Is anyone else having trouble validating this code at the W3C validation page?
It doesnt seem to recognise the attribute “caption”.
Really annoying as everything else works a treat, but if it wont validate it wont fly.
Anyone got any ideas, suggestions on how to solve this issue, with out removing this attribute?
Hi There,
I have just installed Backbox as it is described. When I click the thumb image it opens a new browser window and displays the image there. Then stops and no action. You may see it here: http://www.hskhidrolik/photo/
I need help. Thank you in advance
Hi, PLEASE DISCARD previous message.
When i click the thumb image I receive JS error 2-902 “invalid variable”
Can you please help me on that matter?
Thank you for the great script.
It does not work with IE.Could tell us how to make it compatible with IE7.
It does not work with IE.Please give me your valuable
guidance regarding this problem.How we can make it compatible with IE7
Hi first great script…Ok question is this using IE7 and when previwing I click on the thumbnail backbox… and opens but not fully… to the right you can still see original background color of page it is on I am using
and noticed that maybe it should be
any advice on this be great….
This works great, thanks. Only problem I am having is in Safari. The caption section (when longer than one line) wraps and forces the previous and back links off the white background. I am sure this is an easy fix, but I can’t seem to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated.
HI it works great – thank you.
But i have just one problem, that the image are greate than the resolution of my Monitor. i have saved the original pictures in res. ~ 3024*xxx. is there any chance for a resizing that the images were not greater than the “monitor” ? something like “Monitor width” -20% ? OR MAX Monitor width?
It would be nice. – Thanks
Hi Backbox works great, but i have just inserted google checkout code to my page and now backbox seems to be conflicting with it. The image just pops up on its own, not in the slidshow
Any help would be great
Many thanks in advance