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JavaScript

Posted by williamrossi
williamrossi
6,232 Points

centering a lightbox with jquery

Hi all, I have a lightbox that I want to appear in the center of the screen upon click. Centered horizonally and vertically once clicked on the buy button.

having trouble!

http://jsfiddle.net/d6DH6/

2 Answers

Matthew Shull
Matthew Shull
1,997 Points

Try using this technique found at: http://css-tricks.com/centering-in-the-unknown/ I updated your jsfiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/d6DH6/7/

All I did was remove .buy-links-pop-up from the unordered list and wrap it in another div with .block. Then make the block display:none; and changed the jquery to show and hide .block when the link is pressed. The css block:before and .buy-links-pop-up will then take care of centering and vertically aligning .buy-links-pop-up to the middle of the page. You want to make sure that html, body, and .block have a height of 100% so that it goes to the middle of the window vertically. Also make sure that block has a width of 100%.

Edith Cruz McHugh
Edith Cruz McHugh
2,000 Points
Edith Cruz McHugh
Edith Cruz McHugh
2,000 Points

how to center an image inside the lightbox