Lightbox and IE6

Sorry if this has already been posted. I have checked first!
I can’t get lightbox to work in Internet Explorer. It works in FF mac/pc and safari but in IE it just opens a blank window with the picture in the top left.

Should it work in IE6?

I got the latest Thickbox working well in IE6. You might try that one.

From the instructions for MaxiGallery, here is some more information on this issue and how to resolve it.

You have to call the snippet on an uncached page using "cached" snippet call i.e [[MaxiGallery]], because the automated javascript/css registration in MODx requires this for now. If you don’t call it this way, sometimes when you view the lightbox enabled galleries, the images may just open in a new window instead of the lightbox.

I’ve made sure the I call it using [[ ]] and the page isn’t being cached.

Have a look, I’ve just changed the call for a differant effect and now I just get a black bar accross the top of the screen
http://www.vitalized.co.uk/blog/royalty-free-photos.htm

I’m using the follow to call the script


I’ve noticed the LightBox diesn’t work on the demo site as well, does it work in IE6?
http://www.netguru.fi/modx/maxigallery-lightbox2.html

Lightbox2 works fine in IE6. There must be something going on with your specific installation or configuration of IE. Are you perhaps using an older (unupdated) version?

I just looked at the netguru demo page in IE6 and it works properly. On your page the photos pop up and display normally, but the black background that should cover the entire screen only covers a portion (this is probably the black bar that you refer to). I would bet that something in your JavaScript file or an element name in your layout is conflicting with LightBox and causing that.

I like that Flash movie in your header a lot, btw.

Quote from: web_designer at Aug 11, 2006, 05:40 PM

Have a look, I’ve just changed the call for a differant effect and now I just get a black bar accross the top of the screen
http://www.vitalized.co.uk/blog/royalty-free-photos.htm

I tried with IE6 and FF. Both show the pics in lightbox v2 ok. With IE6 though the overlay is just at the top of the screen and not all the way to the bottom. This is an issue with your site CSS conflicting with Lightbox CSS. Try looking at your page with IE6 web developer extensions and see what element is blocking the overlay div.

Quote from: web_designer at Aug 11, 2006, 05:40 PM

I’ve noticed the LightBox diesn’t work on the demo site as well, does it work in IE6?
http://www.netguru.fi/modx/maxigallery-lightbox2.html

The demo opens perfectly fine with IE6 and FF for me. But if you click the pictures before the page has fully loaded, the pictures can open just in new blank window. In the upcoming version, pictures can be set to be hidden while the page is loading to prevent this issue. The dev code has these features in slidebox and lightbox allready, but if you are going to try the trunk release, note that it’s totally unsupported until it becomes the next "official" version.

EDIT: BTW, you know that you can use &thumb_shadow_bgcolor parameter to define the background color of your page when using dropshadows in thumbnails so there wont be that white color behind the shadow.. same goes for other pic sizes.