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Posted by Rashaun Ewing
Rashaun Ewing
15,711 Points

Part 3: Perform jQuery ; Overlay not showing....

//Problem:User when clicking on image goes to another page
//Solution:Create an overlay with the large Image : Lightbox


var $overlay = $('<div id="overlay"></div>');
var $image = $(<'img'>);

   //  Add 'Image'   
$overlay.append($image);

//Add overlay
$("body").append($overlay);

  //  Add 'caption'


//  Capture 'click' event on a link to an image
$("#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 overlay
  $overlay.show();

  //get 'childs' attribute and set 'caption'





});


//3-  When overlay is clicked 
    //3a- 'hide' overlay

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">
    <title>Image Gallery</title>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Image Gallery</h1>
    <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>
        <li><a href="images/space-juice.png"><img src="images/space-juice.png" width="100" alt="Space Juice by Mat Helme"></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/education.png"><img src="images/education.png" width="100" alt="Education by Chris Michel"></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/copy_mcrepeatsalot.png"><img src="images/copy_mcrepeatsalot.png" width="100" alt="Wanted: Copy McRepeatsalot by Chris Michel"></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/sebastian.png"><img src="images/sebastian.png" width="100" alt="Sebastian by Mat Helme"></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/skill-polish.png"><img src="images/skill-polish.png" width="100" alt="Skill Polish by Chris Michel"></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/chuck.png"><img src="images/chuck.png" width="100" alt="Chuck by Mat Helme"></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/library.png"><img src="images/library.png" width="100" alt="Library by Tyson Rosage"></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/boat.png"><img src="images/boat.png" width="100" alt="Boat by Griffin Moore"></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/illustrator_foundations.png"><img src="images/illustrator_foundations.png" width="100" alt="Illustrator Foundations by Matthew Spiel"></a></li>
        <li><a href="images/treehouse_shop.jpg"><img src="images/treehouse_shop.jpg" width="100" alt="Treehouse Shop by Eric Smith"></a></li>
    </ul>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.min.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
    <script src="js/app.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
    <div id="overlay"></div>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

Benjamin Barslev Nielsen
Benjamin Barslev Nielsen
18,958 Points 
var $image = $(<'img'>);

should be 

var $image = $('<img>');
Rashaun Ewing
Rashaun Ewing
15,711 Points

Thanks!