Lightbox JavaScript problem in IE

[VanessaJW]

I'm using Lightbox for a gallery of images, and I've used it exactly as given, I haven't changed a thing. It works fine in Opera, Firefox, Safari and Netscape, but on IE, the first time I click on any image, the JavaScript doesn't seem to kick in (the larger image just opens in the same way as when JavaScript is disabled). If I re-click the same image, or any others, it all works fine and continues to work fine until I close the browser. When I re-open IE and try again, it does the same thing again.

Has anyone else had this happen? Or is it something I've done somehow

[Ryan Fait]

Do you have any other JS on the page? It could be a conflict of what gets to start up on the page load.

[VanessaJW]

No, just that.

[VanessaJW]

I've just realised I gave some misinformation, if I click away from the gallery page onto another page on the site, then click back to the gallery page, it happens again with the lightbox not working for the first image click. Not just when I close the browser and reopen.

[Ryan Fait]

You wouldn't happen to have a link would you? Or a JavaScript debugger? Maybe what you downloaded could've been slightly corrupted.

[VanessaJW]

As mentioned in the Web Critique forum, this is the link for the site: http://www.aca-graphics-ltd.co.uk/ I know you said it worked fine for you Ryan, but I'm posting the link here anyway, in case anyone else has any insights that might help - of if anyone else can try it in IE to see if the same thing happens for them that would be a great help. Thanks.

[karinne]

Hmmm ... IE6 here and no problem.

[welshstew]

Hi Vanessa, I mentioned in the site critique that it may just be a timing issue to render the code, but I was wrong (as usual)

In IE7 I get a JS runtime error on line 429 - can't execute code from a freed script

not sure what that is about but I'm sure someone will know.

Stew

[welshstew]

found the below in a forum

We faced this error when some <meta> tags come after <script> tags. Try to change the tags order, so <script>'s come after <meta>.

I would therefore move the

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

to above

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<script type="text/javascript" src="lightbox.js"></script>

and see if that solves it.
Stew

[VanessaJW]

Many thanks Karinne for checking it on yours, at least it seems it's working for most people which is a start

Stew - thanks so much for looking into it further, I really appreciate it, I'll try switching those things around later tonight, but I won't be able to check if it works until I go back to work tomorrow and have a look on IE there. So I'll report back tomorrow. You're a star

[VanessaJW]

Stew - I love you! It works :jump: It's not up on the proper site yet, but it can be seen here: http://www.yoursecretgarden.co.uk/ (don't worry about the domain name, that's just a spare one I'm using to test things in). Of course if it worked fine for you the other way, then there won't be anything different to see here!