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How to call a popup from a link inside another popup?

How do I put a lightbox/fancybox auto-popup on my landing page without the user have to click anything?

  • I want people to get a lightbox/fancybox popup with a short intro video when they get to my website. Optionally, there would be a 'Continue to Site' link. An example would be the http://fancybox.net/ site itself. I am currently having users click on a link for the fancybox, but i want it to popup automatically

  • Answer:

    As says, you can trigger a click in JavaScript. It's actually just as simple to do it in plain JavaScript without jQuery: document.getElementById("fancybox-link").click();

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Whatever you are running now onclick event, that you need to run onload event. For example to load a simple pop up run this- <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"> window.open("http://rediff.com"); /*window.open(any sample webpage);*/ </script> </head> <body>test</body> </html> Basically there are lot of ways and when you already have done that (" I am currently having users click on a link for the fancybox, but i want it to popup automatically")... then you can execute the same on page load. Please have a look at these for further explanation http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_body_onload.asp http://api.jquery.com/ready/ http://api.jquery.com/load-event/

Kuntal Chandra

The correct answer is "don't do that".  If a user wants to see it, they'll click on it.  Forcing a user to do anything is a bad idea.  _Especially_ video / audio.

Brandon Paluzzi

You can trigger a click event on a hidden (or shown) link which has fancybox attached to it. You can use $('a#hidden-fancybox-link').trigger('click');

Haralan Dobrev

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