# Lightbox Captions

**URL:** <https://forum.readymag.com/t/lightbox-captions/648>\
**Category:** General topics\
**Created:** [September 6, 2022, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/lightbox-captions/648 "2022-09-06T06:38:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![thommy.p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@thommy.p](https://forum.readymag.com/u/thommy.p)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/lightbox-captions/648/1 "2022-09-06T06:38:04Z")

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Is it possible to add captions to a lightbox gallery? I love that you can have a lightbox and that you can create a gallery but without captions, it is useless to me.

any ideas?

thanks  
t

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**Author:** ![HEADLESS.HORSE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/headless.horse/32/144_2.png) [@HEADLESS.HORSE](https://forum.readymag.com/u/HEADLESS.HORSE)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/lightbox-captions/648/2 "2022-09-10T12:12:01Z")

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Hi @thommy.p you can add captions to the gallery. When you then go full-screen it should show the caption.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/readymag/original/1X/c6a7e89c8ca74d9ea21a242783b880e141f2837e.png)

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**Author:** ![thommy.p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@thommy.p](https://forum.readymag.com/u/thommy.p)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 6:41am UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/lightbox-captions/648/3 "2022-09-11T06:41:35Z")

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Ah I see. Thanks for that.

The problem is I actually want to have several images on a page that open up as a combined gallery in lightbox. Which is easy to do. The issue is that if you do it that way then you don’t get the captions.

I tried making each image a slideshow but then you do not get a combined gallery when you click on them.

I feel like in the “add to gallery” option on single images, there should then be a way to add captions.

thanks for your help

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**Author:** ![HEADLESS.HORSE](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/headless.horse/32/144_2.png) [@HEADLESS.HORSE](https://forum.readymag.com/u/HEADLESS.HORSE)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/lightbox-captions/648/4 "2022-09-11T12:23:41Z")

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In which case that isn’t a feature at the moment. I would suggest adding this as a feature in this thread [What features does Readymag lack the most?](https://forum.readymag.com/t/what-features-does-readymag-lack-the-most/55)

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**Author:** ![David\_Pindrys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.readymag.com/david_pindrys/32/1838_2.png) [@David\_Pindrys](https://forum.readymag.com/u/David_Pindrys)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.readymag.com/t/lightbox-captions/648/5 "2025-02-24T20:45:39Z")

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That’s a slideshow not lightbox, correct?