I have successfully added dynamically populated captions to my CMS lightbox using Sygnal Attributes - CMS & Lightbox + Captions which binds a specific CMS field to the Alt Text to be displayed as a caption in Lightbox. I have even used a bit of custom code to style my captions slightly (which is an achievement for someone like me).
My question: is there a way to add multiple CMS fields to be displayed in the Lightbox? For instance under an artwork image can I have a Title, Year, Size etc. displayed all pulling dynamic text from different cms fields and would it be possible to style these differently?
I would prefer to use webflow’s native gallery mostly and not create a custom lightbox. I have searched the forums and haven’t came up with a good solution for this.
Unfortunately no, you’d need to build something custom, or build a library on top of the lightbox that could identify the current slide, get the CMS data, and overlay it on the overlay.
It would take some work but you might be able to combine a modal, a Webflow slider, and Finsweet CMS slider. That would let you design the individual slides how you want and give you basic next-prev navigation.
You would not have-
The image list shown below the current slide as a navigation, the way the lightbox does.
The ability to open your modal to a specific slide, the way the lightbox does.
I push Webflow’s elements beyond their limits all the time, but here even I would look for a 3rd party solution first. Too many moving parts, it’s an easy way to waste a lot of hours.
Thanks for the insight! I have looked into 3rd party solutions but am very confused on how to use/integrate them with webflow. If you can think of any resources or a noob like me, let me know and thanks again for your help.
With Fancybox you should be able to find youtube tutorials on the basics. Also check Timothy Ricks youtube channel, he likes to do creative things with sliders and might have something similar.
