Lightbox Pre-Sale Questions

ivan-dabbles

Have some questions about Lightbox add-on before signing on with Lay / Lightbox. I can't really test the lightbox since the example Lay's site seems to have lost all images (https://jessica-willis.com/).

Questions:

Can captions be added and styled? My captions will have multiple lines, not one string of text. And I'd want, for example, the title to be italic or bold, and the other parts not.
Can captions be added to an image only once, whether they're used in lightbox or not? Or are there separate image captions depending on what kind of display?
Can viewers on a computer cycle through the images using the arrow keys on their keyboard?
When an image is displayed in a lightbox, can viewers pinch-t0-zoom in to the image even further?

Super grateful for the help.

Ivan

Richard

Dear Ivan

@ivan-dabbles

Hope you are well and best wishes.

Question 1

"Can captions be added and styled? My captions will have multiple lines, not one string of text. And I'd want, for example, the title to be italic or bold, and the other parts not."

Captions can be added and styled with Lightbox images. Captions are added via a 'Text Editor' so you will have control over how many lines, bold, italic, font, font-size, links etc
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If it was really necessary you could add a custom class to the Lightbox element and then your would have complete control over styling it in anyway.

Question 2

"Can captions be added to an image only once, whether they're used in lightbox or not? Or are there separate image captions depending on what kind of display?"

If i understand the question correctly, Lightbox Captions only apply to Images with Lightbox added, other types of captions exists and are available depending on your design. Captions for a Thumbnail Grid for example.

Question 3

"Can viewers on a computer cycle through the images using the arrow keys on their keyboard?"

Yes definitely! 🌝arrow keys work to move from image to image.

Question 4

"When an image is displayed in a lightbox, can viewers pinch-t0-zoom in to the image even further?"

I suppose the 'pinch and zoom' applies to Mobiles only, do you want a pinch and zoom for desktop? (because of lack of fingers on desktop )

Pinch and zoom is not available for desktop. But for Mobile it should be fine. (I think mobile devices have built in zoom regardless of page content).

Hope this helps answer some questions Ivan and have a wonderful day 🌝

Richard

ivan-dabbles

@Richard Thanks for this response.

Yeah for pinch-to-zoom, I do mean on mobile. Some lightboxes prevent that. So wanted to make sure it's possible.

For captions: I was hoping that a caption could be assigned to an image once (like, when uploading it) and then I could use that same image multiple times on the site and the caption would go with it, but it sounds like with Lightbox, that's not possible. But for sure, glad they can be styled.

Does anybody know of any actual Laytheme lightbox sites in use that I could visit? The site they use as an example (jessica-willis.com) doesn't have any images on it anymore.

Hoping to see it in action.

Thanks again!!
Ivan