I would like to know how to use Lightbox2 to display the contents of a div.
Currently I am using the following line of code to display an image.
image #1
Is it possible to display a div's content instead of the image?
Thanks for any hints provided :)
Lightbox is for images.
If you're looking to display content, create a new page and embed an iframe with Fancybox: http://fancybox.net/
To do iframe, include jquery, then the necissary fancybox javascript & css files you can download, then call it with this code:
<script>
$("a.fancyiframe").fancybox({
'type':'iframe',
});
</script>
then setup your link element:
<a class="fancyiframe" href="http://www.yoursite.com/place.html">This goes to iframe</a>
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I have a fancybox iframe and css is written on parent page. but css is not working in Fancy box but when i change to ajax it is working properly.
If you have something in iframe you have to set the css for the page inside it too, If u want it to work. The css for the main page works just for the main page not for the iframe content.
This works perfectly fine:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$.fancybox({'href' : 'http://www.cnn.com','frameWidth':500,'frameHeight':500,'hideOnContentClick': false,'type':'iframe'});
});
</script>
That is, FancyBox opens and displays the CNN homepage. However, if I change the href attribute to "#pg"
and have the page coded this way:
<body>
<div id="pg"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById("pg").innerHTML = "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\"><html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\"><head><title></title></head><body>test me now</body></html>";
</script>
</body>
FancyBox opens but no text is displayed. (The text "text me now" is displayed in the #pg div element. Notice it is assigned to the DIV's innerHTML at the end of the page.)
Basically, I want to know if there is a way dynamically initialize a DIV's innerHTML property and display it as a FancyBox type iFrame? (The content of the iFrame will have a button that prints the iFrame's document.)
TIA
UPDATE: 07/28/12
As #arttronics suggested, I put together a jsFiddle
To summarize, ultimately the objective is to be able to click a button contained inside a FancyBox that prints the entire contents of the FancyBox without opening another window. (I want to use FancyBox as a report viewer for content parsed by Javascript.)
I assume that I need to display content using FancyBox's iframe player, but I could be wrong.
The jsFiddle shows:
The FancyBox is able to display text that validates as an HTML page using the inline player. The text can either be referenced via href or content.
However, when the player is an iframe and the content comes from href, then the FancyBox container is empty. If the contents comes from the content attribute, FancyBox shows a 404 error.
Simply comment and uncomment the jsFiddle code to see what I mean.
Any ideas for how I can meet my objective are appreciated and will get an up vote!
TIA.
Update: 07/31/2012
This new jsFiddle example: Iframe report viewer works but not in FancyBox
As you can see, I've tried several ways to display the iframe in FancyBox. And while FancyBox does display the contents of the iframe, the printing feature breaks.
I think one method for solving this problem would be to write the content of the myContent var to the FancyBox after it is loaded, but I can't (A) find the right DOM node to write to, and (B) I can't get FancyBox to display an iframe using its iframe player when the iframe src="about:blank".
Any suggestions? Or do you see a way to fix the jsFiddle example?
Do you really expect that <iframe src="#myID"></iframe> would open an element having id myID into iframe?
If you want to print content of the fancyBox, then you can add print button - http://jsfiddle.net/s3jRA/
Updated demo - http://jsfiddle.net/qVrLr/ - for creating and updating contents of iframe
As is often the case, I was looking at things backwards. The solution (with caveats) is this, rather than display a div element using the iframe player, hide an iframe in the html and display it using the inline player.
See this working example: jsFiddle
This solves the problem of being able to print dynamic content without opening another window. Additionally if the text overflows the FancyBox, the entire contents are still printed. (That's something I could not get to happen when I printed the FancyBox and changed the various page elements visibility styles to hidden).
Major Caveats
I've tested this in IE 8 and it works, however I still cannot get this to work in Chrome.
One reason for trying this approach was my assumption that I would be able to include within the dyanmic page content an #media print style. That technique does not work (in IE anyway) for some reason. However, inline styles do work as do HTML markup tags (notice the <strong> tag in the jsFiddle example: var myContent). So something is strange.
I am trying to figure out how the get the featured area
at http://blueoceanportfolios.com to link to webpages rather than displaying it within the featured box on the left .
This area is using JS file to display the videos on content in the featured box when different items on the menu are clicked, here is the working example :
http://www.blueoceanportfolios.com/company/
Okay ,
The problem: Loading a new webpage rather than displaying the content at featured box at the homepage of above website
Tried solutions: linking to javascript functions like onclick="window.location="http://someplace.com";" etc but still the content loads up in the featured box ,
try clicking on 2) it displays stackoverflow.com rather than loading new page.
Any suggestions ?
This:
<script type="text/javascript">
onclick="window.location="http://someplace.com";"
</script>
... is not the way to add event handlers to an element. If you want those anchors to link to a web page, put the URL in the href attribute like any normal link:
Link text
At the moment I've got Colorbox setup so that it starts automatically when the page loads, but I need to place it in a div on the page, instead of hovering in the center of the page. How can I do this? Thanks for reading.
You can do insert this javascript snippet into your javascript on document complete, where you bind colorbox.
$(document).bind('cbox_complete', function(){
var divContent = $('#cboxLoadedContent').html(); // Grab the content of cboxLoadedContent div
$('#colorbox').hide(); // Hide colorbox div
$('#cboxOverlay').hide(); // Hide the overlay div
$('#Output').html(divContent); // put the content inside the specified div.
});
What this does is that after the image/page is successfully loaded into colorbox, it will immediately grab that content, hide the colorbox and overlay, and dump that content into the new div.
Yes, you will see opening and closing of colorbox flashing on your screen really quick, but this will do it. If you want more controls, then you customize these events: onOpen or onLoad. See link at bottom of my post to go to colorbox website for more details.
Beside cboxLoadedContent, you can also use #cboxWrapper, or #colorbox divs, depending on how much colorbox information you want to embed in your div.
Please note that by doing this, you will have to rebind the buttons, if you want it to allow navigation inside the div.
You can go to Colorbox Site for more customization options.
I think Colorbox is the wrong tool for what you want. The functionality you want is more like an image gallery. Some ones you might like: Galleriffic or Galleria
If you visit here: http://www.egyptevakantie.nl/dahab, click on the "andere plaatsen" tab, and then click on an image it brings up a magnified image, courtesy of the jQuery lightbox plug-in.
However, if you do the same here http://www.egyptevakantie.nl/dahab?rhys=yes (essentially the same site except for a couple of stylesheets and one or two minor html changes, none of which are in close proximity to the images) the lightbox fails. Instead of overlaying the content the lightbox is appended to the bottom of the page, where it is also displayed weirdly.
So far in debugging I've managed to work out that the plug-in still calculates the correct left and top values for where to place the lightbox, but by the time the dhtml is generated the top value has changed completely.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
I think you are missing the jquery lightbox stylesheet file.
in the first page there is a reference to this css file:
/css/jquery.lightbox-0.5.css
but on the second link there is no reference to this file.
this css file is included in the jQuery lightbox download located here:
http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/
If image is appended at bottom page, for sure postion:absolute is not set.