Using FireFox 4.0:
I was playing around with Lightbox2 last night, and I simply can't get it to load the control images (like loading.gif or closelabel.gif), even if they're in the same folder as the javascript. The applicable part of my site hierarchy looks like this:
root
Lightbox (contains all lightbox js, css, and images with no sub-folders)
MySubFolder
masterpage.master (loads the lightbox js)
Default.apsx (contains images that are be lightboxed)
The lightbox styles and javascript are loaded, and the image comes up as expected, but the frame around the image doesn't have the close image (closelabel.gif) on it. If I hover the mouse in just the right place on the frame, I can click the invisible image, and the window returns to the normal pre-lightboxed view. I played around with it for about two hours yesterday, but could not get the image to show up.
This issue caused me to look for an alternative to Lightbox2. I think I want to try ShadowBox next, but I'm wondering if anyone else has:
0) had the same problem with Lightbox2
1) found anything that's better (and lighter weight)
2) experience with ShadowBox
3) any idea why Lightbox2 refuses to show the window control images
I started with Lightbox2 because it appears to work fine on their demo page with IE8 which is what I have to use at work, but when I got home and actually put it into a web page, I had the problems cited above. I don't think it's because I'm using FF4, because if I remember correctly, their demo page worked fine with it.
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