Tracking content in a lightbox

What exactly are you looking to have tracked? If the link is properly coded (and therefore understood by munchkin.js) it will show up as a Clicked Link in Marketo. Let us know what your end goal is to help clarify...thanks     

Jeremy, whether an in-page lightbox link needs special treatment is determined by how your lightbox library works.

A link like this, where the content is determined by a data- attribute, will require special treatment:

<a href="#" class="lightboxme" data-lightbox-content="http​://example.com/my.pdf">

A link like this this will not require special treatment, even if the default <a> behavior is short-circuited and the contents of the href are displayed in a lightbox:

<a href="http​://example.com/my.pdf" class="lightboxme">

A link like this also is not special, although the Clicked Link event will be logged for the HTML-level href, which may not be the actual content loaded into the 'box:

<a href="https://nation.marketo.com/my.pdf" class="lightboxme" data-lightbox-content="/example.net/my-other-file.jpg">

There are other considerations, too: a <button> or generic element used to launch the lightbox will also not be tracked by default.

Tracking single-page apps with Munchkin (which is pretty much what you're doing, but on a limited scale) can require special attention. Every such problem can be solved but the out-of-the-box experience may not work.

Hi Jeremy,
You could try using a "Custom Data Event" if you want to use a <button> to open the lightbox: http://developers.marketo.com/javascript-api/web-personalization/custom-data-events/

I'll admit I haven't done this with Marketo yet, but I use basically the same thing to pass data through to Google Analytics and it works pretty well.

Let us know what you end up using and how it all goes.

Cheers,
H