How to display a caption below an image lightbox

I have a gallery grid with images (of artwork). I have it set to pop-up with enlarged images in a lightbox, and display the captions on hover. This is fine on desktop, but on mobile devices the captions do not display unless you tap a tiny dot in the lower right hand corner. Absolutely no one sees this, so mobile visitors to my site always think there is no caption information given.

A fine solution would be to simply have the captions below the enlarged lightbox images, and always show up (no hover). This seems like a really, really basic format, but it seems that this is simply not an option on Squarespace, which is baffling to me. Are there any workarounds for this? Having a simple grid of images where you click an image and get a bigger image with a caption below it really seems like something that should be possible.

can you please send URL here.

www.tonycavalline.com

I agree, is there any update to this?

I'm having the exact same issue and Squarespace support cannot help me. It should be a very straightofrward CSS fix by the looks of it. Did anyone make any progress with this?

@skazia @ChuckChair -- Try this in Design > Custom CSS to make the caption visible by default (you won't be able to hide it with by clicking the dot, however):

.sqs-lightbox-meta.overlay-description-visible {
 bottom: 0px !important;
}

@danieljs thank you so much! I'll give this a shot. I don't mind the fact that it doesn't hide the caption afterwards. Much appreciated :)

@danieljs thank you so much! I'll give this a shot. I don't mind the fact that it doesn't hide the caption afterwards. Much appreciated :)

No problem, let me know here if you run into any issues with it.

Thank you, but the caption hides a lot of the image. I am looking for an option to have the caption below the image.

Hi all - I'm running into the same image on an artwork website where the code provided covers a lot of the image, any suggestions on how to ensure that the image captions always display below the image?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

1 hour ago, SodaCreekDigital said:

Hi all - I'm running into the same image on an artwork website where the code provided covers a lot of the image, any suggestions on how to ensure that the image captions always display below the image?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Can you share link to your site?

I am also having this problem with my site www.glorianna.org/adventuring. I created captions for all of the images but they only appear in Lightbox on Desktop and most of my clients and followers view on mobile. Some of my captions include stories that cover the entire photo, so it would need to be possible to turn it off. Help please!

@SodaCreekDigital did you ever find a solution to this?

I'm looking to do a similar thing.

On 9/15/2020 at 7:20 PM, DominicB said:

@SodaCreekDigital did you ever find a solution to this?

I'm looking to do a similar thing.

If you share siste url, we can check easier.

Same issue. Squarespace doesn’t seem to understand the needs of artists very well and it’s totally annoying that they think a tiny dot in the corner will be obvious to visitors. I just barely noticed it myself. 

On 7/6/2021 at 10:12 AM, BethB said:

Same issue. Squarespace doesn’t seem to understand the needs of artists very well and it’s totally annoying that they think a tiny dot in the corner will be obvious to visitors. I just barely noticed it myself. 

If you share link to your site, we can use some code to enlarge this tiny dot, or add some text beside dot

On 7/6/2021 at 10:12 AM, BethB said:

Same issue. Squarespace doesn’t seem to understand the needs of artists very well and it’s totally annoying that they think a tiny dot in the corner will be obvious to visitors. I just barely noticed it myself. 

Could you share your current site url with the issue?

On 9/15/2020 at 7:20 PM, DominicB said:

@SodaCreekDigital did you ever find a solution to this?

I'm looking to do a similar thing.

Try this solution

is it so hard for Squarespace to add a check so that we can select if we display caption on lightbox or not?

It is such a basic feature for artists, photographers etc that i am surprised it is not provided by default, and it is strange that although they have it there for images on the gallery, they don't provide it when people click the image (lightbox) to see large size....

I would not start to add to my template javascripts and huge css blocks, i could have stayed with Wordpress if this is the case in order to add simple and basic functionality

On 7/5/2021 at 11:12 PM, BethB said:

Same issue. Squarespace doesn’t seem to understand the needs of artists very well and it’s totally annoying that they think a tiny dot in the corner will be obvious to visitors. I just barely noticed it myself. 

On 2/17/2022 at 9:26 AM, tsouratziscom said:

is it so hard for Squarespace to add a check so that we can select if we display caption on lightbox or not?

It is such a basic feature for artists, photographers etc that i am surprised it is not provided by default, and it is strange that although they have it there for images on the gallery, they don't provide it when people click the image (lightbox) to see large size....

I would not start to add to my template javascripts and huge css blocks, i could have stayed with Wordpress if this is the case in order to add simple and basic functionality

I couldn't agree more. I have been struggling for days trying to figure out a way to just simply move the lightbox caption to the right of the image (and move image left), and make it permanently visible. Y'know...a very very basic feature for artists. What the hell? Why isn't this standard? Why isn't it just a choice that we can tick on or off?

I can figure out how to get the bloody caption visible permanently, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to detach it from the image and get it to display NEXT to the image. Nothing has worked. I shouldn't have to spend so much of my time trying to figure out what should be a basic choice from the get go.