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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Lightbox Fixing the Simple Lightbox

missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
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Posted by missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
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Final Code Challenge on Lightbox Perfect

I'm really confused. This is my code. I am looking at it and the documentation and the video and cannot figure out why I'm getting a parse error.

$("#imageGallery a").click(function( event ){
    event.preventDefault();
  var imageLocation = $(this).attr("href");

  $image.attr("src", imageLocation);

  $overlay.show();


  var captionText = $(this).children("img").attr("alt");
  $caption.text(captionText);
});

P.S. I suck at Markdown like I can't get it to work.

2 Answers

Aaron Graham
Aaron Graham
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Aaron Graham
Aaron Graham
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It is hard to tell where the parse error is. In this challenge, you should only have to add event.preventDefault() at around line 19. Did you change anything else? I believe that this is the section of code you have above:

$("#imageGallery a").click(function(event){
  event.preventDefault();

  var imageLocation = $(this).attr("href");
  //Update overlay with the image linked in the link
  $image.attr("src", imageLocation);

  //Show the overlay.
  $overlay.show();

  //Get child's alt attribute and set caption
  var captionText = $(this).children("img").attr("alt");
  $caption.text(captionText);
});

Is this the same as what you have?

P.S. To get the markdown to work, make sure you have an empty line before the first set of backticks.

missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
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missgeekbunny
missgeekbunny
37,033 Points

Thanks for that. I went back to a fresh code challenge and I guess I changed something and missed it.