I recently implemented lightbox.js to display my photographs. I’ve noticed that clicks on this are tracked as Outbound links in the Outbound pepper, with a blank destination link.
I’d say this qualifies as a bug. Any comments?
Lightbox.js image links tracked mistakenly as Outbound links
Looks like you have an unclosed <a> somewhere in your source code. That would explain it.
Thanks for catching that! (By the way, how did you know that was the problem page?).
However, I have the feeling that was not the cause of the problem. I will report back with my findings
Hm, I have the same issue on my site, and I also don’t think it’s due to unclosed anchors… Hm…
@stormy, it was the first page linked from your blog that used lightbox.
@mitcho, but you are missing a closing </head> tag. As soon as the DOM is invalidated (regardless of what type of closing tag is missing or improperly nested DOM reliability goes out the window.)
And that’s why we validate. :)
I’ve had this happen again on a valid page. Or, to be strict, a page that is valid except for the YouTube embed code. Would that explain the problem?
Nope, but if you post a link, I’ll take a look.
Here’s the page with the problem: stormymondays.com/rainydays/2008/01/la- … s-war.html
Have you tried temporarily removing the invalid code and seeing if the problem persists? I will see if I can duplicate this problem this afternoon. What version of lighbox are you using? (I don’t see Lightbox.js in your source.)
I’m not really that worried now that the problem is very localized. I’m using a wordpress plugin that uses “Slimbox”, a smaller lightbox clone.
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