Activate Lightbox by clicking on LI rather than thumbnail

Question

Hi everyone,

Using Lightbox for a photo gallery and would like to initiate the function by clicking on the thumbnail's parent <li>rather than the thumbnail image. I have been able to do this easily with the thumbnail for the album (not using Lightbox, simply opening another page) with the following code:

$(".item").click(function(){
        window.location=$(this).find("a").attr("href");return false;
    });

However, can't seem to initiate Lightbox in a similar fashion. Ideas?

Thanks!

UPDATE I am using jQuery Lightbox (0.5), http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/

Here is the code to initiate:

   $('a.lightbox').lightBox();

And the HTML (with PHP for details):

<a href="http://tapp-essexvfd.org/gallery/photos/&lt;?php echo $images['filename'];?>.jpg" class="lightbox" title="<?php echo $images['caption'];?>">

Answer 1

You could catch the click of the <li> and then invoke the click event of the first <img> inside that <li> with the following code. But this is very hacky, and I do not recommend it. It would help to know which lightbox you're using (there are many), and see some HTML.

$(".item").click(function() {
  $(this).find(".lightbox:first").click();
});