Cannot click on a picture on Safari

I recently had this problem, and someone here helped me fix it. It's happened again, and I don't recall the solution. If there is a picture on a safari website, and I click on it, it just darkens the Safari screen. I just tried clicking on a help feature on a website, and again, it just darkened the screen. I would appreciate hearing the solution again. Resetting Safari doesn't help

Do you have "Block pop-up windows" enabled, under Preferences/Security? If so, turn it off and test.
When I select the link you described, I get a new window pop-up advertisement and a pop-up html dialogue over a dark ground, asking me to make another selection related to help details. I assume you can't see this new pop-up.
Another idea is that scaling seems to move pop-ups in unexpected directions. When the screen is dark, try going to the extent of "zoom out" to see if the pop-up appears inside the viewable window, by moving towards the center from the edges.

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