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CSS jQuery Basics (2014) Creating a Simple Lightbox Perform: Part 2

Chen Sun
Chen Sun
3,247 Points
Posted by Chen Sun
Chen Sun
3,247 Points

why the screen turns black in the beginning?

And why after set display to none when clicking the image the overlay effect shows again?

Juan Pablo Farias
Juan Pablo Farias
2,386 Points

Hey, I will take the risk of answering as studend and not english speaker.

It turns black because is appended to the body from the beginning, so it's always there. When you put it on "display: none;" on your CSS it dissapear, then with the "show() method", this style changes to visible because it overwrite the previous style of "display: none"

Something similar happen when you use "hide()" and then "show()"

Cheers!