Mouseover thumbnails in galleries?

beardedgitbeardedgit Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
edited August 9, 2013 in SmugMug Support
Back in Basic Legacy with the SmugMug theme, a mouseover of any of the thumbnails in a Gallery would pop up a text box containing the image's caption. IIRC it was a default action, and I found it really useful.

Now I'm in New/Power, with a slightly modified version of the SmugMug theme. The view in Gallery is similar to Legacy, but I don't get any thumbnail mouseover action.

Has this been lost, or is there a setting for it that I've yet to find?
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  • mbonocorembonocore Registered Users Posts: 2,299 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2013
    beardedgit wrote: »
    Back in Basic Legacy with the SmugMug theme, a mouseover of any of the thumbnails in a Gallery would pop up a text box containing the image's caption. IIRC it was a default action, and I found it really useful.

    Now I'm in New/Power, with a slightly modified version of the SmugMug theme. The view in Gallery is similar to Legacy, but I don't get any thumbnail mouseover action.

    Has this been lost, or is there a setting for it that I've yet to find?

    To be honest, I don't remember this in Legacy. Was it custom code that made this possible?
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  • beardedgitbeardedgit Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2013
    mbonocore wrote: »
    To be honest, I don't remember this in Legacy. Was it custom code that made this possible?

    No custom code, I just chose a theme and it happened.
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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2013
    mbonocore wrote: »
    To be honest, I don't remember this in Legacy. Was it custom code that made this possible?
    Here's a screen shot. It shows the photo caption in the alt tag. 
    <img id="Tiny_2472928409" class="draggable imgBorder"
 [COLOR=Red]alt="Western Grebe   and Ruddy Ducks   Ellis Bay   Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary"
[/COLOR] title="Western Grebe   and Ruddy Ducks   Ellis Bay   Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary"
...
    BTW, the NewSmug have no tags, alt or title tags on gallery photos/thumbs. That's the reason the hover
    doesn't show on NewSmug.
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  • beardedgitbeardedgit Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2013
    Allen wrote: »
    BTW, the NewSmug have no tags, alt or title tags on gallery photos/thumbs. That's the reason the hover doesn't show on NewSmug.

    Hmm, I see, thanks for that bad news. I did see another thread about alt tags but didn't think that tags were the cause of this issue. Now I'm a bit older and a lot wiser thumb.gif

    Do you suppose that some sort of CSS wizardry could solve the photo caption issue? I'm not fluent in CSS - I know that the "C" stands for Caramel and that one of the "S"s stands for Shortcake, other than that I'm rather uneducated in the art.
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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2013
    beardedgit wrote: »
    Hmm, I see, thanks for that bad news. I did see another thread about alt tags but didn't think that tags were the cause of this issue. Now I'm a bit older and a lot wiser thumb.gif

    Do you suppose that some sort of CSS wizardry could solve the photo caption issue? I'm not fluent in CSS - I know that the "C" stands for Caramel and that one of the "S"s stands for Shortcake, other than that I'm rather uneducated in the art.
    I think I read Smug is looking into the tags.
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  • beardedgitbeardedgit Registered Users Posts: 854 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2013
    Allen wrote: »
    I think I read Smug is looking into the tags.

    OK, thanks, I'll hold fire on any hacks.
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  • BigRedBigRed Registered Users Posts: 288 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2013
    mbonocore wrote: »
    To be honest, I don't remember this in Legacy. Was it custom code that made this possible?

    This was baseline legacy functionality. But many people found the "bubbles" distracting and removed them with javascript function delHover per SM's customization #27. So if the Alt/Title tags are restored, we'll again need an option to hide them.
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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2013
    The major reason they're needed is for when crawlers visit your site and see the image tags. I don't think hiding
    their visibility would effect this as long as the tags remain in the page source, but I could be wrong.
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