Appreciate that. Webflow is having issues today so I have kind of left it to see if it resolves on its own. I couldn’t see anything on my end I was doing wrong. So appreciate the second set of eyes. The first caption is that the main image and alt possibly. The first link I provided was a working version of this setup. On a clone of your cloneable. The setup being a lightbox main image, lightbox multi-image and lightbox video all linked together in a group. Thanks again for taking a look this setup is fantastic. i don’t understand why Webflow hasn’t improved this component.
added a lightbox link with no image just text and link to group. Works fine in this project. Has to be that live webflow project. Checked the webflow.io and it is doing the same thing.
A lightbox with no items… that seems like the most likely cause of your missing image and missing alt caption. What happens when you remove that?
I think I could modify the library to look for and ignore missing items, however I’m trying to figure out the best way to test it, since I’m not certain how to recreate your scenario.
Do you want to clone your site and then transfer that copy to my workspace?
I added my structure to the template page and collection recipes you already have. There is the additional images - multi-image , single image video and the single button link. And it all works.
Nest the lightboxes in other divs shouldn’t affect the outcome since it is looking for the [attribute]
I’m going to start from a clean slate on the template page on the lodge site and see if I can’t duplicate the success of the cloneable. will let you know the progress
appreciate your time.
Webflow - TRM CMS lightbox with captions - 17 February 2023 - Watch Video
Are you able to please take a look at my site to see if I’m doing anything wrong?
I was unsure about how to style the caption, but from what I can see when I inspect the live site, the captions aren’t being generated. I know there’s a note on the SA5 page about a bug from August 2024 that Webflow were working on, but I’m hoping that isn’t the case still…
Hi Claudia, I finally had a chance to re-review all of the different setup possibilities.
Unfortunately the only configuration that works properly with captions is when;
Lightbox media is bound to a CMS image field ( not multi-image )
Lightbox contains an image thumbnail, where the alt can be bound
Every variation I’ve tried with multi-image fields fails either due to the alt text bug which still exists, or due to the way lightboxes work internally.
Thank you so much for looking into this for me! I’ve gone ahead and built my gallery with single CMS image fields, and the captions were working as of yesterday, but since filling the other tabs and their lightboxes, now they aren’t showing.
Is this an issue with multiple lightboxes on one page? Would really appreciate your help again!
Currently you can see that your image element [1] is set to alt text from image [2].
Since you’re sourcing from the CMS, and not assets, there is no alt text.
What you’ll want to do is to create a text field in that collection to store your Alt text, and then bind [2] to that.
