[Plugin: Simple Lightbox] Close if click on image?

Yes, that can be a bit of a quandry.

The problem is that the clicking on the image is used for navigating through multiple images. Clicking on the left half navigates to the previous image, while clicking on the right half navigates to the next image.

Changing this behavior in situations where there is only one image to display is not a good option because it can confuse the user (closes the lightbox when they think it should navigate to another image or vice versa).

One option is to make/modify a theme where the close button is always visible. Simple Lightbox themes are very easy and only require a bit of HTML and CSS.

Here are a few resources.
Theme layout
Registering themes

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks for the ideas (nicely designed site behind those links BTW). The thing is that I’m pretty sure I want it to work that way (to close it on click). I’m not using the gallery features of the plugin at all, single pictures only.
But now I get it, it’s not that simple. And I don’t want to make you rewrite the whole plugin.
I’m going to do it anyway, so if you could help me out with some function names, or any clue about where to look, you could save me some time ??
Cheers mate.

Some quick tips:

• Replace /js/lib.js with /js/dev/lightbox.js (i.e. copy the file to /js/ and rename it to lib.js)
• Remove default event handlers in setEvents() and add one to close the lightbox when it is clicked. You can use the event handler for slbClose in this method as a guide.

Hope this helps.