Image gallery help

[mikel2k3]

I am currently using this to make my image gallery's for photographers, models etc:
www.distrasdesigns.com/photography

But what I would like to know, is there anyway for it to happen that when you click on a thumbnail, the image will open in the same window (instead of a new window).

I was thinking of doing it using an IFRAME, but this would only work if all the images are the same size? If a different sized image were to be opened in the IFRAME, a lot of whitespace would be there, and make it ugly against a black background.

I know there are ways getting around this using CSS code, such as making the IMG tag be forced to a certain width and height, but then the image would be stretch out of proportion.

All help appreciated

[Anna]

yes there is, you need to find the code inside the right file where the link is created and modify that. Other then that I don't think there is an option.

checked the site and the source code, this is the part you wanna remove from that link:

target="new" onclick="return popuplinkfunc(this)"

Suppose it might be a bit tricky to find though.

[maikefutesi]

check out lightbox 2

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

[mikel2k3]

yes there is, you need to find the code inside the right file where the link is created and modify that. Other then that I don't think there is an option.

checked the site and the source code, this is the part you wanna remove from that link:

target="new" onclick="return popuplinkfunc(this)"

Suppose it might be a bit tricky to find though.

If i took out that line of code, it would just do the default of either opening in a new window, or that same window. Either way, it would still involve the user having to manually click the browsers back button.


maikefutesi
I already knew about lightbox, wasnt sure if its what my client wanted though. Ill ask him, thanks for reminding me about it

[The_Magistrate]

Although it isn't supported in the latest versions of the XHTML standard, you can use target="_self" in the anchor tag. See the documentation here:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp

<a href="http://www.x10hosting.com" target="_self">x10</a>

[maikefutesi]

If you already knew about Lightbox but don't want/like it, you can always check out plugins from popular libraries. (Prototype, jQuery, MooTools)

I'm sure jQuery would have a plugin or ten you would like

[Statico]

Although it isn't supported in the latest versions of the XHTML standard, you can use target="_self" in the anchor tag. See the documentation here:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp

<a href="http://www.x10hosting.com" target="_self">x10</a>

I guess the same (or similar) attributes of the anchor target parameter are applicable in

var href_target="new" //Enter target attribute of links, if applicable

[mikel2k3]

Ive decided to use the lightbox thing. Ive shown the client how to add photos in the HTML and he is pretty pleased with it.

www.distrasdesigns.com/arp/index_b.html

Thats the site its being put on

thanks for the help