clickable image

[Daveb]

Hi
Can somebody please aim me a thread that discusses how to make the main image clickable and link to a larger image, without using "Extended Information".
What I am trying to accomplish is to have a small caption underneith the image saying "Click here for larger view" and have both the image and caption hot.
Looked in AUG, to no avail, but I may not be using the correct search term.
Thanks
Dave

[AndyBorrett]

May I ask why you don't want to use extended info pages as they seem to do everything you want to do?

Under Extended Info tick 'clicking product image' and 'text link' then enter your desired text eg "Click here for larger view"

If you prefer something like this -

http://www.seriouslysilver.co.uk/aca...ndant_145.html

Let me know and I'll dig out the code

[Daveb]

Thanks Andy
Just wanted to keep the page a little less cluttered and to keep the "Exrented Information" available for the occasional situation where it is necessay to use it,. Renaming the button to Large Image" would eliminate that option.

see sample page"

http://www.baypressservices.com/acat...Color_Cue.html

Dave

[AndyBorrett]

I find most customers expect clicking on the image to show a larger image so you could leave the text off all together if you really wanted to.

Another option is to have a small icon with a magnifying glass next to your image.

[Daveb]

Agreed
Just trying to find the thread that shows how to do in.
Dave

[jont]

use something like

<a href="large-pic.jpg"><img src="magnify-icon.gif" alt="view larger pic" border="0" /></a>

that will link to the larger image .. you can combine this with either the inbuild actinic pop-up javascript or a neater solution is Lightbox which displays the larger image as an overlay with the main page greyed out beneath.

Norman at www.drilpine.biz has a plug-in for this if you don't want to install it yourself.