Open A Gallery Lightbox From Anywhere
Have you ever wanted to open a gallery of images in a lightbox, but didn’t want to display the gallery on the actual page? Now you can! We wanted to do this too, so we created the solution. In this tutorial, I will show you how to open a Divi gallery in a lightbox by clicking on a button, image, link or other module.
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1. Add And Set Up A Divi Gallery Module
Add The Module And Images
The first step is to place a Divi Gallery module in your layout and add your images.
Hide The Gallery
For this tutorial, we will be hiding the Divi Gallery module from view because we only want to see the images from the gallery opened in a lightbox. So the next step is to hide the module by going to the Divi Gallery settings>Advanced tab>Custom CSS and placing the code “display: none!important;” into the Main Element code box.
Add A Custom CSS Class
The last step for the Divi Gallery module is to add a CSS class so that our jQuery code in the next step can target this exact gallery to open the images in a lightbox.
Go to the Gallery module settings>Advanced tab>CSS ID & Classes toggle and add the class “pa-gallery” to the CSS Class input field.
2. Add And Set Up The Trigger Module
Add The Module
Now you need to decide what kind of module or link you want to open the gallery. You could use an image that opens the lightbox, or a button, or any other module. In the video accompanying this tutorial, we will show you an example with both an Image module and a Button module.
Add A Custom CSS Class
The trigger module needs to have a CSS class also. This one is used to designate the module as the click rigger that opens the gallery lightbox. (The screenshot below shows the example using a Button module.)
Go to the module settings>Advanced tab>CSS ID & Classes toggle and add the class “pa-gallery-trigger” to the CSS Class input field.
If you wanted to just is a link within your text you could add the class to the href <a> tag like this:
<a class="pa-gallery-trigger" href="#">Open Gallery From Link</a>3. Add The jQuery Snippet
The last step is to copy and paste the jQuery snippet below into your site. The code is simply opening the Divi Gallery module whenever you click on the trigger module.
If you are using our free Divi child theme, place this snippet into the scripts.js file and remove the <script> tags at the beginning and end. Otherwise, place this in your Divi>Theme Options>Integrations tab in the "Add code to the < head > of your blog" code area.
<Script>
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery('.pa-gallery-trigger').click(function(){
jQuery('.pa-gallery .et_pb_gallery_item:nth-child(1) img').click();
});
});
</Script>You may notice the :nth-child(1) in the code. This refers to the image that should open as the default image. So in this case, the 1 means the very first image in the gallery, or you could choose any other number to open another image first.
What if I want to add more than 1 gallery in the same page??
Hi Andres!
In that case, please add a new class in the Gallery and new button module. Then add a new script with those classes.