Gallery does not popup images in Firefox 3.5.5

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    rmgallery13 · Member ·

    I am using the wordpress gallery. I have 2 issues with it.

    1. I cannot exclude images I want to publish from my gallery. i.e. Its a all or nothing and I cannot selective pick images I want to be displayed as part of my gallery. I have some images in small thumbnails and also bigger versions of the same images all in my gallery and I want to show the thumbnails on my page and when the thumbnails are clicked show the bigger versions in the gallery popup.

    2. When my images are displayed in Firefox 3.5.5 and I click on one of them it should show the gallery popup with the bigger version of the same image. It shows the bigger image but not as a popup but in a new page or just reloads the same page with just the bigger version of the image. This does not happen in IE 6.0 and i get the gallery popup with the bigger version of the same image as expected. I have unblocked popup’s in firefox and also checked ‘Raise or Lower windows’ in Tools->Options->Content->Enable Javascript but none of this has worked.

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    rmgallery13 · Member ·

    the blog address is rmgallery13.wordpress.com

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    @rmgallery13

    In my opinion the gallery feature is clumsy at best if one wants control of how images are displayed. That said, this article is very informative:
    http://gammagirl.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/not-the-official-wordpresscom-gallery-faq/

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    Also, I’m assuming you have read this:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/gallery/

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    rmgallery13 · Member ·

    what is the best way to show thumbnails and when each is clicked it opens the bigger version of the thumbnail pic without working with a gallery? I’m very new to wordpress (2 days old) so don’t have much idea on how to resolve some of these clumsy issues yet.

    Thanks for the response.

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    @rmgallery13

    I use tables. It might be a bit scary for a beginner because you have to use html, but after you do it a few times you’ll see its quite straightforward. Understand that the clumsiness is my opinion. But with your #2 question, galleries will always open in attachment pages. There are rumors of an upgrade of the gallery feature, but nothing definite yet.

    Here is a table which could be used for three images across: 

    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding-right:.5em;" valign="middle">LEFT_CONTENT_HERE</td>
<td style="padding-right:.5em; padding-left:.5em;" valign="middle">CENTER_CONTENT_HERE</td>
<td style="padding-left:.5em;" valign="middle">RIGHT_CONTENT_HERE</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>

    In English the code says:
    table: make a table, with no border, but some space around each picture (cellpadding – you can change that number)
    Body: begin the table.

    tr: is a table row.

    td: is table data or in simpler English a square in your table /td end table data
    td: another cell across in the table /td end table data
    td: and another cell /td end table data

    /tr: end the table row
    (you can repeat the table row at this point if you want 3 more pictures)

    /body table is finished
    /table table is finished

    You have to put the code inside pointy hugs < code >.
    And the code comes in pairs:
    start < code > and end < /code >

    One final note, if you don’t want your pictures to open in the attachment pages, then when you upload them choose “file URL” on the line called link URL. WordPress will remember that option so you should only have to choose it once.

    If you choose “none” then the picture won’t open as a larger image.
    If you choose “post URL” then the picture will open in the attachment page format.

    Hope this helps…

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    Oh, rats!
    for pictures, you don’t even need the padding code: 

    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="middle">LEFT_CONTENT_HERE</td>
<td valign="middle">CENTER_CONTENT_HERE</td>
<td valign="middle">RIGHT_CONTENT_HERE</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>

    (valign middle means vertical align and could be “top” “middle” or “bottom”)

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    rmgallery13 · Member ·

    thanks. I created a table and just used plain old javascript to popup windows from my thumbnails as i wanted. I had thought wordpress made such things easier but apparently not. I hope they fix the ‘gallery’ so its a little more mature and usable or come up with something better than that.

    Thanks for your help

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