Links not working when using jquery cycle plugin

Question

I have this HTML code:

<div class="headerPages">
        <div style="right: 0px">
          <ul dir="rtl">
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/1.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="subscribes.php">1</a></li>
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/2.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="advertisement.php">2</a></li>
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/3.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="contactPage.php">3</a></li>
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/4.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="newsBar.php">4</a></li>
          </ul>
        </div>
        <div style="right: 0px; opacity: 0">
          <ul dir="rtl">
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/1.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="manageAlbums.php">5</a></li>
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/2.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="words.php">6</a></li>
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/3.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="addVideo.php?type=1">7</a></li>
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/4.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="addVideo.php?type=2">8</a></li>
          </ul>
        </div>
        <div style="right: 0px; opacity: 0">
          <ul dir="rtl">
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/1.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="infoControl.php">9</a></li>
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/2.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="partners.php">10</a></li>
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/3.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="personalPage.php">11</a></li>
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/4.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="manageVotes.php">12</a></li>
          </ul>
        </div>
        <div style="right: 0px; opacity: 0">
          <ul dir="rtl">
            <li class="headerLinksItem"><img src="images/numbers/1.png" alt="" width="20" height="22" align="absmiddle" /> &nbsp;<a href="main.php">13</a></li>
          </ul>
        </div>
      </div>

and this javascript code:

$('.headerPages').cycle({
        timeout: 0,
        next:   '#next',
        prev:   '#prev'
});

every thing is working fine but when I am trying to click links in each slide, I can't and I get links from the prev slide because of the opacity it's set to 0 and the z-index property like layers as this plugin work.

I tried to use cssAfter, cssBefore and it's not working also

any idea how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

I´ve came across the same problem today and found out that cycle sets a class for the active slide. So you easily can use CSS instead of the callback function:

.cycle-slide-active {
    z-index: 1001 !important;
}

Answer 2

I had the exact same issue with this otherwise perfect plugin. After a bit of fumbling, I settled for a solution using the after callback to automatically reset the z-index . It should be doable using cssAfter as well.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#slideshow').cycle({ 
        // options there,
        after: onAfter
    });
});


function onAfter(out)
{
    // Dyamically set the greater z-index for the current slide.
    // Works with any number of slides.

    $(this).css('z-index', Number($(out).css('z-index'))+1);
    $(out).css('z-index', Number($(out).css('z-index'))-1);
};