Question

I am using jquery lightbox plugin colorbox (http://colorpowered.com/colorbox/) and i want to be able to construct a URL like http://www.example.com/about-me.html which will send the user to my website and open the iframed page (about-me.html) within the lightbox script.

I believe i have to use event hooks or something but i am not sure how to achieve the result. Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Credit goes to Jack Moore on the colorbox google group.

His solution adapted to this question:

var url = document.location.href;
if(url.search(/\?about-me/i) !== -1){
    $(".iframe:first").click();

}

So the url would be http://www.example.com?about-me this would take the user to the homepage and this javascript will find that parameter and tell colorbox to open it.

Original google group thread and more info: http://groups.google.com/