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Start your free trialNouh Ahmed
7,085 PointsJQuery 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. });
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Steven Parker
231,275 PointsYour 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.