Lightbox with Flash

11/03/2009 at 12:18 pm | Posted in Flash, Javascript | Leave a comment

This is a workaround of making Lightbox work with Flash.

First of all, you have to understand that Lightbox is Javascript and not Flash. HTML works in some way in Flash but only for text formatting purpose with HREF support.

Codefidelity has came out with Lightbox++ to solve this problem but I find it not practical in some cases where you have to stick to HTML and very minimal Javascript to trigger Lightbox like how it is suppose to be. It is also my wish to stick to the original Lightbox rather than going for some mod. Doesn’t matter which version but it just works without much tinkering and very minimal effort. Sounds great? So lets get into it.

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