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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Lightbox Perform: Part 3

Nouh Ahmed
Nouh Ahmed
7,085 Points

JQuery Basics- Plan

My code and the teachers code is same. But the image is not added to the overlay. This is my code

//Problem: User when clicking on image goes to a dead en //1. Solution: Create an overlay with the large image - Lightbox

var $overlay = $('<div id="overlay"></div>'); // add an overla $image = $("<image>"); $overlay.append($image); // add an image // a caption $("body").append($overlay); //1.1 We should capture a click on a link to an image $("#imageGallery a").click(function (event) { event.preventDefault(); var imageLocation = $(this).attr("href"); //console.log(imageLocation); //1.2 update overlay with the image linked to the link $image.attr("src", imageLocation); //show the overlay $overlay.show(); //1.3 get child's attribute and set caption. });

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

:point_right: Your code differs from the video. The HTML tag for an image is "<img>".

But in your code above, you create the image tag using "<image>", which is not a standard HTML tag that a browser would recognize.