Prevent lightbox form from closing after submit

Hi,
First I would like to start off by saying that I’m very new to wordpress, coding, css, all that. But I’m trying very hard to learn my way through ??
So my apology if my problem is not descriptive enough.
Also I’m building this site offline so I’m sorry I can’t provide with the link.

Here is what I have currently:
– I used ‘Contact Form 7’ to create a simple subscription form, using ‘MailPoet-Contact Form 7 Integration’ plugin.
– Then I used ‘Lightbox Plus ColorBox’ to open this form as a lightbox when a text link is clicked.
– Here’s the code in the header.php to trigger the modal with the text link.
`<div id=”JOIN”>
<a class=”lbp-inline-link-1 cboxElement” href=”#”>J O IN</a>
<div style=”display: none;”>
<div id=”lbp-inline-href-1″ style=”padding-top:10px; padding-left: 30px; background: #fff; overflow-y: hidden;”>
<p><?php echo do_shortcode(‘[contact-form-7 id=”596″ title=”JOIN FORM”]’); ?></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>`

So all this works perfectly as I want it.
Now, the part I would like to figure out, but couldn’t and pulling my hair out for the last two days:
– Currently, the lightbox automatically closes when the ‘submit’ button is clicked. And when I click the text link to open the lightbox again, I see the form with the response (if a field is missing or was successful).
– However, I would like the lightbox to remain open after the submit button is clicked. Therefore the we can see the response right away.
– The lightbox should only close if x or the overlay is clicked.

A bonus question:
– Is it possible to renew the form when the lightbox is closed so that when it opens again, we don’t see the respond of the previous submission?

I see online that many people have raised this question in the past, but I couldn’t find any solution. Please someone help me or point me to the right direction. Also please consider that I am new to all this, so easy explanation would help me extremely.

Thank you in advance for your time!
Jin

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