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As far as I can tell, Backlight doesn't support the Sublocation tag that shows up in Lightroom's Metadata editor. Would it be possible for future releases to support it?

Does Backlight support the Sublocation metadata tag that you can add to an image through Lightroom? I don't see it anywhere in the list of supported tags. If not, what can be used as a similar general location tag?

This is probably a bit nitpicky, but is there a way to alphabetize the lists of templates in Backlight > Designer > Templates? Right now they're appearing in random order. I’d like to add numbers to the names of primary templates so they’d be at the top, and then the templates cloned from them would appear below.

It isn’t a big deal if there isn’t, it would just be easier to keep track of them.

I’ve followed Rod’s very helpful guides on using a web browser’s console editor to find what css is controlled by what, and on viewing and editing the backlight master style sheet. I’m slowly figuring out all the css that controls various things that I can add to my custom stylesheet.

One question:

I’ve noticed that when you first open my page it shows up as a sans-serif font and then switches over to a serif font, which is what I want. I think that’s because it’s first reading the font setting at the top of resource.php and then my custom file creepyhouse.css. Should I edit the php file to correct this? That sounds a bit scary.

Hi folks! I'm trying to make some changes to the thumbnails and descriptions in my albums and album sets here. I have a few questions:

1. I’d like to get rid of or modify the white borders around the text, leaving only the rounded grey border around the thumbnail itself, but I can’t find where to do this in the CSS.

2. .album-description in the CSS is set to center, but the description on the page still justifies to the left.

3. I also have the .album-description line-height set to 40%, but when there has been more than one line of text I haven’t seen any reduction in line height.

4. Will these settings go down to the albums themselves, or is that done somewhere else?

Here is the CSS I’m using:

.the__albumSet figure a {
	background-color: rgb(75, 75, 75); 
	border: 0 solid rgb(110, 110, 110); 	
	border-width: 2px; 			
	border-radius: 10px; 		
	color: #212121; 				
	display: block;
	height: auto; 							
	width: auto;
	margin-top: 10px; 					
	margin-right: 10px;
	margin-left: 10px;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	overflow: hidden;
	text-decoration: none;
	align-content: center;
	
}

.the__albumSet a:hover {
	background-color: #5a5a5a; 				
	border-color: #880000; 					
}

.album-thumbnail {
	background-position: center center;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-size: cover;
	float: left;
	margin-right: 0px; 					
	margin-left: 0px; 						
	margin-top: 0px; 						
	margin-bottom: 0px;
}

.album-title {
	font-size: 1rem; 					
	font-weight: 400; 						
	font-family: metamorphous; 				
	font-style: normal;
}

figcaption p.album-title {              	
	text-align: center;
}

.album-thumbnail img {
    border: 0px; 							
    border-color: #FFFACD; 					
    box-sizing: border-box;
    border-style: solid !important;
    background-color: #191919 !important; 
    padding: 4px !important;
}

.album-description {
	font-size: .95rem; 						
	line-height: 40%; 						
	font-weight: 400;
	font-family: Constantia, "Lucida Bright", "DejaVu Serif", Georgia, serif;
	text-align: center;
}

Thanks as always!

I know Matt recently made a little tutorial showing how to set up a handy hidden thumbnail gallery, but I can't find it. Can someone point me to it?

Thanks!

Is it possible to have animated gallery thumbnails using .gifs, video, etc.? It isn't the end of the world if you can't, though it would be nice.

Thanks!