Lightbox - Operation Aborted Error in IE

24 September 2010

If you're getting 'Operation Aborted' in Internet Explorer 6 or 7 on a page that loads Lightbox 2, you may need to patch the lightbox.js file with the code below to fix the problem:

if (Prototype.Browser.IE) {
    Event.observe(window, 'load', function(){
        new Lightbox();
    });
} else {
    document.observe("dom:loaded", function(){
        new Lightbox();
    });
}