Description On Photo Thumbnails

DenMother

Joined: 2004-02-01
Posts: 8
Posted: Sat, 2009-11-28 03:15

Hello,
Some of my photos have rather long descriptions. Also my users like to know what photos have descriptions, 15000 photos.
So I'd like to have descriptions pop up on mouseover.

Or a entitytruncate:30 or so characters under Views: so they can get a taste and know if they want to click the photo and read the rest.

I've searched the forums and found some else working on mouse overs but no final answers.

Thanks
Steved
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floridave
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Joined: 2003-12-22
Posts: 27300
Posted: Sat, 2009-11-28 23:04

You could edit the album.tpl of the theme you are using and add the description. Currently the summary is used:
{$child.summary|markup|entitytruncate:256}
You could use the description and not the summary.

You could also add a 'tooltip' or 'title' to the image and use the description.

Dave

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DenMother

Joined: 2004-02-01
Posts: 8
Posted: Sun, 2009-11-29 10:03

Thanks, used your first idea right away. I'll have to look into the tooltip suggestion too.