Question

I have 3 PHP files named as,

1. index page
2. books
3. user

Index Page

<link href="colorbox.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.8.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.colorbox.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function bookRetr(str)
{
    if (str=="") {
        document.getElementById("more-info").innerHTML="";
        return;
    }

    // code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
    } else {
        // code for IE6, IE5
        xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }

    xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
        if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
            document.getElementById("more-info").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
        }
    }
    xmlhttp.open("GET","showbook.php?id="+str,true);
    xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>  
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
    //Examples of how to assign the ColorBox event to elements
    $(".popup").colorbox({iframe:true, innerWidth:750, innerHeight:520});
});
</script>

<div id='$bookid' onClick="bookRetr(this.id)></div>
<div id='more-info'></div>

bookshow.php

$bookid = $_GET['id'];
$query  = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM bookdatabase WHERE ID='{$bookid}'");
$fetch  = mysql_fetch_array($query);
$user   = $fetch['userID'];

echo "<a href='showuser?id=$user' class='popup'>My name is X</a>";

The book show echo part is shown in my index page when i click on the div, but when click on My name is X, it open a new page but its actually supposed to open a popup. I got the popup named as colorbox plugin.

I’m unable to figure out where exactly i’m going wrong that the popup never opens.

Answer 1

Instead of:

$(".popup").colorbox({iframe:true, innerWidth:750, innerHeight:520});

Try:

$('.popup').live('click', function() {
  $.colorbox({href:$(this).attr('href'), open:true, iframe:true, innerWidth:750, innerHeight:520});
  return false;
});

OR if it won’t work:

$("body").on("click", ".popup", function() {
  $.fn.colorbox({href:$(this).attr('href'), open:true, iframe:true, innerWidth:750, innerHeight:520});
  return false;
});

Hope it helps a little