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JavaScript jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Lightbox Perfect

Eleanor Campbell
Eleanor Campbell
8,630 Points
Posted by Eleanor Campbell
Eleanor Campbell
8,630 Points

Task 1 keeps failing on task 2 in Challenge.

I pass task 1, then go to task 2 and check my work. Even when I don't change a single thing it tells me that task one is no longer passing. What is going on? Is this one of the bugs we are suppose to fix? Does the challenge change our code between task one and two?

Eleanor Campbell
Eleanor Campbell
8,630 Points
Eleanor Campbell
Eleanor Campbell
8,630 Points

ahhhhh. I meant that to be a comment. Sorry new to using this forum. so see my comment in the answer section.

4 Answers

Eleanor Campbell
Eleanor Campbell
8,630 Points
Eleanor Campbell
Eleanor Campbell
8,630 Points

Yeah I couldn't find the forum for the challenge. it's the one immediately following this video. "fixing the simple lightbox". here's the code, I put my changes between ***** (obviously I did not actually put these in the challenge just here to make it easy to see my changes): //Problem: User when clicking on image goes to a dead end //Solution: Create an overlay with the large image - Lightbox

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

//An image to overlay $overlay.append($image);

//A caption to overlay $overlay.append($caption);

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

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

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

//When overlay is clicked $overlay.click(function(){ //Hide the overlay $overlay.hide(); });

Heather Ingram
Heather Ingram
11,094 Points
Heather Ingram
Heather Ingram
11,094 Points

For the first step I added event.preventDefault(); to the click event like you did with no issues. On the second part, I just changed alt to title.

Justin Phillips
Justin Phillips
7,177 Points
Justin Phillips
Justin Phillips
7,177 Points

Has anyone been able to pass task 2? I've done the same as Heather (comment above), passed Task 1, but Task 2 says that Task 1 is no longer passing!

Omar Elfishawi
Omar Elfishawi
4,060 Points
Omar Elfishawi
Omar Elfishawi
4,060 Points

Im having the same problem, task 1 is no longer passing /Problem: User when clicking on image goes to a dead end //Solution: Create an overlay with the large image - Lightbox

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

//An image to overlay $overlay.append($image);

//A caption to overlay $overlay.append($caption);

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

//Capture the click event on a link to an image $("#imageGallery a").click(function(event){ event.preventDefault();

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

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

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

//When overlay is clicked $overlay.click(function(){ //Hide the overlay $overlay.hide(); });