Lightbox support for images

Hello, I wanted to add the Sphinx plugin sphinxcontrib.images for lightbox support improving the preview of images. Following the instructions on the website, I added the following to my _config.yaml:

sphinx:
    extra_extensions:
        - sphinxcontrib.images
    config:
        images_config: 
            override_image_directive: true

This results in the following entries of the conf.py:

...
images_config = {'override_image_directive': True}
...

Unfortunately, this doesn’t show any effect on the rendered page. Any ideas what I do wrong or what I miss here? Thanks a lot in advance!

[markusritschel]

Hey @choldgraf. No, I haven’t tried yet. Also, I never used pure Sphinx before. Just stumbled upon jupyterbook recently. I would first need to familiarize myself with Sphinx. I can do that but at the earliest sometime next week.

[markusritschel]

Hi @choldgraf, I just realized that this issue is still open and that I didn’t come back with an update. Sorry about that. The issue remains for Jupyter book: The lightbox works with the thumbnail directive but not with any other (image, figure, etc.) directive. And, I can confirm that it is working expectedly with “regular” Sphinx (both with the thumbnail and the images directive) unless I activate the nbsphinx extension. Then the image doesn’t open in a LightBox object anymore but as a new URI instead (for both directives).