How do I create a hover text over my grid gallery?

You might try copying and pasting this in Design > Custom CSS:

/*
** in gallery grid, set a hover over slide effect to 
** display slide title on partially transparent
** overlay
*/
.sqs-gallery.sqs-gallery-design-grid .slide 
.margin-wrapper .image-slide-title {
 position: absolute;
 bottom: 0;  
 width: 100%;
 height: 0;
 color: white;
 background-color: rgba(194, 194, 163, .8);
 opacity: 0;
 transition: all .25s ease-in;
}
.sqs-gallery.sqs-gallery-design-grid .slide 
.margin-wrapper:hover .image-slide-title {
 height: 40%;
 opacity: .9;
}  

This should give you the effect, on hover over a slide, of a partially transparent overlay sliding up over the image and displaying the slide title.

Let me know whether this works and, if so, whether it's the type of effect you have in mind.

-Steve

Thanks Steve! Ill give it a try

I have been looking for something like this, thank you! I'm still a newbie to CSS, what about your code makes it slide up from the bottom? What about it can be modified to have it slide in other directions or simply appear or zoom into the overlay?

Also is there a way to maintain the title to the center of the image?

Sorry for the multiple questions, just interested to learn.

@adeuitch:

So as not to hijack @sira's question with material not directly responsive to it, if you will pose a separate question of your own and leave a comment here with the question title and url, I will try to help. Try to decide on what effect you want for your site and pose your question as how to get that. Don't forget to give your template name and site url.

As examples of the kind of hover effects that can be achieved, see Hover.css and CSS Image Hover Effects.

Thanks so much for this! Wondering if there is a simple way to have this effect display the description vs the title (or title and description) within the same context. I'm using the mercer template and this is the first script I've found that works with my site.

Best!

Hey guys. I'm using the Horizon template in Squarespace and I want to have the title hover effect with a desaturation or blur of the photo's title and caption in a gallery block on the individual images on specific pages.

Been trying to figure this out for months and cannot figure it out.

Hi,

Not sure if you're using gallery blocks or gallery pages?

I've developed a commercial plugin that adds grid gallery block titles in front of the image with smooth hover effects. You can add a background color as well.

So if a result like the image below is what you're after, check out the plugin here.

– Petri / Vox Pop