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Chris Taylor
4,815 PointsLightbox exercise .attr
In reference to the lightbox exercise:
sample HTML of one of the images:
<ul id="imageGallery"> <li><a href="images/refferal_machine.png"><img src="images/refferal_machine.png" width="100" alt="Refferal Machine By Matthew Spiel"></a></li>
Javascript:
$("#imageGallery a").click(function(event){ event.preventDefault(); var imageLocation = $(this).attr("href"); $image.attr("src", imageLocation);Subject: Three down...
The .attr on the last line changes the "src" to be equal to href of #imageGallery a. I'm confused as they hold the exact same value on each image! In above html example, both href and src = "images/refferal_machine.png". So what are we really changing by setting the image attribute src = "images/refferal_machine.png" ??
2 Answers
0yzh
17,276 PointsHey Chris, the difference between the two in this case is that the href for the anchor tag is the link that opens the image when you click on the thumbnail. The thumbnail in this scenario would be the img tag and to display that thumbnail on the page you need to link it by using src attribute. It is the same link but if you used only the anchor tag in this scenario with no img tag, you will not see a thumbnail on the page.
Chris Taylor
4,815 PointsThank you Huy