Question

'<div class="lightbox-con">
     <div class="lightbox-shade"></div>
     <span class="logo"></span>
     <div class="controls">
         <span class="arrow back"></span><span class="close"></span><span class="arrow forward"></span>
     </div>
     <div class="caption">
         <p class="caption-text"></p>
         <span class="logo2" ></span>
      </div>
  </div>'

The markup above is a lightbox. Given it’s already in an overly state, how do I close/remove it when everything is clicked except the .arrow elements? I tried so many ways and one of them is this:

$(':not(.arrow)').click(function(){
   $('.lightbox-con').remove();
});

The code above won’t even allow the lightbox to launch :-\

Answer 1

$('.lightbox-con').click(function(){
  //your code to close it
});
$('.arrow').click(function(event){

 //your code for moving forward back
event.stopPropagation(); //this will do the trick, it wil just execute arrow code and stop others
})

I hope this helps