Display Captions in Webflow’s Lightboxes
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Works with CMS-stored images, thumbnails, and captions.
Does not support captioning video, due some complexities matching captions to
the currently displayed video.
This is likely a temporary solution, as Webflow intends to building
captioning support into Memberships natively.
This feature allows you to display a caption inside of Webflow’s lightboxes, which is automatically pulled from the CMS.
Usage Notes
Prepare your CMS
- Include a photo in your collection items
- Include a plain text, single-line caption
Prepare your Collection List
- Setup your Collection List
- Add your Lightbox Element
- Data bind it, as usual, to the thumb and main images you want
- Also set Alt Text to the plain text caption you want
wfu-lightbox-captions attribute
Add the wfu-lightbox-captions custom attribute (no value needed) to the Lightbox Link, which is the outermost lightbox element.
Getting Started ( NOCODE )
STEP 1 - Add the Library
There are currently no configuration options for this library, so we’ll use a no-code integration approach.
Add this CSS script to the HEAD of your site or page.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sygnaltech/webflow-util@4.11/dist/css/webflow-elements.css">
Add this JS reference to the BODY of your site or page.
<script type="module" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/sygnaltech/webflow-util@4.11/src/nocode/webflow-elements.js"></script>
STEP 2 - Apply the custom attributes to the elements you want to affect
See above for details.