spacing between thumbnails disappeared after using another lightbox - css

Question

I used to have no problem with the css code i have been using. But, after I have changed from using "Lightbox2" to "fancybox", the spacing between the thumbnails and the thumbnail border (when mouse hovering above) disappeared. What has gone wrong?
Compare the problem page after switching to using fancybox (www.lixiao-art.com/test.html ) with the page using Lightbox2 ( www.lixiao-art.com/latest.html )
This is the code I use:
body { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color: black;
margin: 0px;
background-color: RGB(181,170,128);}
*{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight:normal
}
#nav {float: left;
position: fixed;
background-color: RGB(233,231,197);
text-align: left;
font-size: 11px;
color: #645630;
width: 90px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 100px 20px 100px 30px;
border: none;
min-height: 100%;
}
#content {float: left;
margin-left: 150px;
padding: 15px 20px 10px 80px;
width: 900px;
margin-top: 0px;
border: none;
font: black;
font-size: 11px;
}
#content a {text-decoration:underline}
h2 {height: 2em;}
.footer {
text-align:center;
padding-top: 50px;
padding-bottom: 1em;
font-size: 11px;
}
a{text-decoration: none;
color: #645630;}
a:hover {color: red;}
* {margin: 0;}
html, body, wrapper {height: 100%;}
.ImgBorder img { border:2px solid transparent;
height:100px;
}
.ImgBorder:hover img{ border-color: white}
.ImgBorder {display: block;
float: left;
margin: 30px 20px; }
h5{
clear:both
}
img { border: none; }
Thank you!

Answer 1

In your previous Lightbox2, each image is wrapped in an anchor
<a class="ImgBorder">
and the class ImgBorder has the value margin: 30px 20px
In your current Fancybox, you can just add this missing margin margin: 30px 20px to the class fancybox as each image is now wrapped in an anchor
<a class="fancybox"/>
As I just noticed that there doesn't seem to be any class fancybox already defined, you just have to add
.fancybox
{
margin: 30px 20px;
}
e.g. in your global.css
Update: In case you also want to display the border for the fancybox-images, there are two ways of achieving this: Currently you have both lightbox versions on your test page. For the first image the border is still displayed for hover. Following CSS is taking care about that:
.ImgBorder img {
border: 2px solid transparent;
height: 100px;
}
.ImgBorder:hover img {
border-color:white;
}
for an image markup as follows for your first image:
<a class="ImgBorder" rel="lightbox[gaze]"
href="http://www.lixiao-art.com/work/2014/52.jpg">
<img src="work/2014/52_t.jpg">
</a>
Your current fancybox-markup is like this for your second image:
<a href="work/2014/52.jpg" rel="group" class="fancybox">
<img src="work/2014/52_t.jpg">
</a>
So all you have to add is the border and hover for the fancybox-class:
.fancybox img {
border: 2px solid transparent;
height: 100px;
}
.fancybox:hover img {
border-color:white;
}
It's possible that there are some additional adjustments because of the CSS that fancybox uses, but it's easier if you just check this on your site as I just noticed that you're currently working on it.
At the moment your fancybox images "jump" because you added the CSS
.fancybox:hover
{
border-color:white;
margin:30px 20px;
}
which results in setting this margin on hover (therefore jumping then). I suggest you just try the CSS I posted above, that should work.
Update 2 for the comments follow-up questions:
The attributes class and rel stands for the following:
rel (='related') is an attribute containing information for you previous lightbox. The lightbox script will just fetch the information for e.g. a big image or a link from there.
class: as you noticed, almost all in your css-file starts with a dot (.) followed by a name. This name is the name of the class to which the style information will apply. So .test {color:red;} results in displaying a text red in case it's wrapped in an element with the class test, e.g. a <div>: <div class="test">This is red text</div>.
Update for the margins:
To keep the margins to your images when you remove it for the :hover - the correct way to have the margins is just like that:
.fancybox img
{
margin:30px 20px;
}
As you already have one .fancybox img in your CSS, just add this margin to it, though you can also have these selectors multiple times in a CSS file, it's better to keep the styles applying to an element together.

Answer 2

Thank you very much! You've pointed out the problem with my multiple classes, and I've fixed it accordingly like this:
<a class="fancybox ImgBorder" rel="group" href="work/2014/52.jpg"">
<img src="work/2014/52_t.jpg">
</a>
(instead of making new definitions in my global.css)
But, a small problem shows up: this line shows in red colour in the editor at the backoffice. Is there a problem with this line? but I guess I will open a new thread for this.
Thanks again!