Caption display bug when using Lightgallery

This is a core Lightgallery bug, and not a plugin bug (you can experiment with this by tweaking the data-sub-html attribute on one of the slides on https://sachinchoolur.github.io/lightGallery/ using Chrome Inspector). I generally don’t attempt to fix those unless they are interfering with the functionality of the plugin in a major way (e.g. I had to rewrite a lot of pieces in Image Lightbox). And given that Lightgallery’s script is larger than Photonic’s, that bug isn’t something I am up for fixing.

As an alternative, if you know that your titles are going to begin with “…” as opposed to just “.”, why not start it with the right term, …?

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by Sayontan Sinha.

Good idea. Thank you for the workaround.

Cheers!

I checked – Picasa itself doesn’t respect …, so even if you are seeing it correctly in Lightgallery, a visitor on Picasa will see it wrong.

I dug into Lightgallery’s code, and from what I can see, there is a specific reason this is failing. If the first character begins with “.” or “#”, there is some special handling:

if (!subHtmlUrl) {
	if (typeof subHtml !== 'undefined' && subHtml !== null) {
		// get first letter of subhtml
		// if first letter starts with . or # get the html form the jQuery object
		var fL = subHtml.substring(0, 1);
		if (fL === '.' || fL === '#') {
			if (this.s.subHtmlSelectorRelative && !this.s.dynamic) {
				subHtml = $currentEle.find(subHtml).html();
			} else {
				subHtml = $(subHtml).html();
			}
		}
	} else {
		subHtml = '';
	}
}

I guess one way to fix this would be to change one line from above to this:
if ((fL === '.' && subHtml.substring(0, 2) !== '..')|| fL === '#') {

Not sure if it is going to break something else, though.