Title: lightbox deactivates automatically
Last modified: November 12, 2024

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# lightbox deactivates automatically

 *  [malle9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malle9/)
 * (@malle9)
 * [1 year, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lightbox-deactivates-automatically/)
 * Hello!
   When I save a page after making a change, the image lightbox feature (
   native from Gutenberg) is deactivated. I can reactivate it and save, then it 
   works – but as soon as I make another change on the page’s content it deactivates
   again (somehow it has to be the last thing to be saved to work). My wp-version
   is up to date.how can i solve this automatic deactivation? thanks for your help
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   to see the link]_

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 *  [Kel Santiago-Pilarski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kel-dc/)
 * (@kel-dc)
 * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lightbox-deactivates-automatically/#post-18173250)
 * Hey there [@malle9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malle9/), thanks for 
   reaching out!
 * To better understand your issue and help you further, please share more details
   along with a screen recording. Specifically, show how you initially set up the
   image lightbox feature, then make changes to the page, and finally, how it became
   deactivated. I will try to replicate this on my test site to investigate further.
 *  Thread Starter [malle9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malle9/)
 * (@malle9)
 * [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lightbox-deactivates-automatically/#post-18306594)
 * Thanks for your reply!
   so the lighbox I use is the feature integrated in the 
   image block (it has a legend that i hide with css when the lightbox is not triggered.
   Everytime i go into modify page mode the lightbox-button is deactivated (at this
   time, it still works on frontend). When i then make any change to the page and
   save it, on frontend the lightbox is not clickable anymore. So my workaroud until
   now was: i make my changes, then reactivate the lightbox button on any image (
   doesn’t need to be done to every img, one is somehow enough to reactivate all
   lightbox element), save, and then the lightboxes are clickable again on frontend.
   here’s a screen recording of the process: [https://kdrive.infomaniak.com/app/share/723197/cb90585c-4ef5-418a-bafc-55594963a251](https://kdrive.infomaniak.com/app/share/723197/cb90585c-4ef5-418a-bafc-55594963a251)
   does that explain my issue better? thanks for your further analysis 🙂

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 * Last activity: [1 year, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lightbox-deactivates-automatically/#post-18306594)
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