Reply To: Opening a gallery with a text link (onclick?)

• jaidev

• January 21, 2015 at 7:53 pm

Brian,

I guess this is out side the scope of ACF. However, one strategy (that might work) could be:

1. Hide your images with css:
#gallery-1 { display:none;}

2. Create a button “Photos”

3. Add a jQuery click event listener to the button that performs/fakes a “Click” on the first image – to start the Simple Lightbox:

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
	// cache variables -Id #btn-photos is generic - chang with your own actual ID or Class
	var btnPhotos = $("#btn-photos"),
		galleryItems = $("#gallery-1").find(".gallery-item a");

	$("#btn-photos").click(function(event) {
		// something like this MIGHT work..
		galleryItems.first().click();
	});
});

Might be better ways, but this is first that came to mind.

Regards!