Problem with lightbox not showing next/prev. arrows... [solution]

[Dr.CSS]

If you use Album and try the lightbox template but can't seem to get the next/prev. link images to show, I've found a solution...

Go to Album and on option tab click View Default Stylesheet then copy it to paste into a new style sheet and uncheck Auto Link Stylesheet: attach new style sheet to template and they appear, this after trying every trick in the book what a simple thing...

Your mileage may vary...

[elimak]

What helped me solve this issue was changing the path in the lightbox.css from relative to the absolute path.

If you look at the file in /modules/Album/templates/db/lightbox/css/lightbox.css the images are linked in with url relative to the css file ../images/prevlabel.gif
changing it to /modules/Album/templates/db/lightbox/images/prevlabel.gif solved the issue.

A word of caution CMSms does not use the lightbox.css directly so you might have to update the paths in the album style-sheet
/modules/Album/css/stylesheet.css

This is not a permanent fix for this issue since the path is absolute & would break if you're running CMSms from a subfolder. 

[Gillian.Hesse]

Can I be a bit dense here (sorry I'm a newbie!)

Go to Album and on option tab click View Default Stylesheet then copy it to paste into a new style sheet and uncheck Auto Link Stylesheet: attach new style sheet to template and they appear, this after trying every trick in the book what a simple thing...

How do I attach the new new style sheet.  There doesn't seem to be a gui provided so I assume I need to add the link to the stylesheet directly into the template myself.  I tried adding the following to the lightbox template (thru the edit link in the templates list)

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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="modules/Album/css/stylesheet_correction.css"/>

but no luck (even after clearing the cache).

Thanks alot

Gill

p.s.  I was looking at a site that was linked from another thread about lack of lightbox and his lightbox album was being presented as a slideshow.  How do you do that?

[Dr.CSS]

Once you create a new style sheet you have 2 ways to attach it to a template...

1) go to Layout > Templates click orange CSS icon to the right of the template name find CSS in drop down click Attach Style Sheet button...

2) go to Layout > Style Sheets click orange CSS icon to the right find name of Template in drop down click Attach button...

[Gillian.Hesse]

Dear Mark,

I understand now.  I'm attaching the copied stylesheet to the page template that I'm using.  I thought I was supposed to attach the new style sheet to the Album template which didn't appear to be possible.

And it works.  Yippeeeeee

thanks 

Gill