Using Lightbox to pop-up on page load

JavaScript
1

Hey,

I’m wondering if it’s possible to use the Lightbox JS so that it pop-ups on page load and not when the user clicks an image?

Basically want to use it like a pop-up window which will announce something because standard pop-up windows suck. What’s the current trend for pop-up windows anyway?

Cheers

2

Everybody hats pop up windows but lightbox/greybox ones seem to be the trnd now. you could create an html page and then at the very begining of the page have ti call the lightbox script.

3

Instead of using Lightbox JS, why don’t you use Lightbox Gone Wild, it’s for the exact purpose you’re after. I haven’t looked at it, but you would have to do something like this:

window.onload = function() {
  lightbox();
}

where lightbox() is the function you would normally call with an onclick event, but of course it’s perfectly ok to have it run when the window loads.

4

give this a shot. might be a lot easier to work with.
http://frankleng.me/2010/07/21/drupal-tip-lightbox-pop-up-on-page-load/

5

Put something like this in your page.

<a id=“firstlink” href=“thelink.html” rel=“lyteframe” title=“” rev=“width: 635px; height: 465px; align: center; scrolling: no;”></a>

In the lightbox script is an initializing part which starts the lightbox when the pages is loaded.
Trigger it to the firstlink ID.