# How To Enable Lightbox For Slideshow And Reel Gallery Sections
**Source:** https://beyondspace.studio/blog/how-to-enable-lightbox-for-slideshow-and-reel-gallery-sections
**Language:** French (France)

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# How to enable lightbox for Slideshow and Reel Gallery sections

Apr 26

Written By Beyondspace

On Squarespace, you can enable Gallery lightbox for Gallery blocks and sections in Grid layouts, also with the help of Lightbox Studio  - Squarespace lightbox plugin, you can enable Gallery lightbox for other layout of Gallery blocks (like Slideshow or Stacked).

Today, I am gladly announce that other Gallery sections layouts now can be lightboxified with the help of Lightbox Studio, that includes

- Slideshow: Simple
- Slideshow: Fullscreen
- Slideshow: Reel

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## How to enable lightbox for Slideshow sections

Unlike Grid layout Gallery section, which you can enable/disable the lightbox per-section, enabling Lightbox for Slideshow section will be affected site-wide, that mean once you turn on the feature, it will apply to all Slideshow Gallery sections on your site

- Install and activate Lightbox Studio  on your website
- Navigate to the Playground on Lightbox Studio
- Make sure the **Slideshow gallery (7.1) lightbox** setting is checked
- Switch to **CODE** tab and copy the generated snippet
- Replace the snippet with the old beyondspace snippet in your Footer injection.

**Pro tip**: Ground Control users can access visual settings for Lightbox Studio directly in the Squarespace dashboard, skipping manual copy and paste steps. See the full plugin update tutorial here.

*Enable Slideshow sections Lightbox with Lightbox Studio*

And that’s it, now all your Slideshow Gallery sections can be opened in a lightbox! You can see the feature in action by visiting this page.

I’ve put together a table to compare all lightbox feature on different Gallery section layouts

| Gallery type | Visionneuse | in Lightbox Studio | Lightbox toggle | Clickthrough handle |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Grid: Simple | Supported | Supported | Per-instance | Open the URL |
| Grid: Strips | Supported | Supported | Per-instance | Open the URL |
| Grid: Masonry | Supported | Supported | Per-instance | Open the URL |
| Slideshow: Simple | Not Supported | Supported | Site-wide | Open the URL |
| Slideshow: Full | Not Supported | Supported | Site-wide | Open the URL |
| Slideshow: Reel | Not Supported | Supported | Site-wide | Open the URL |

## Preview the Slideshow lightbox before purchasing

You can preview the Lightbox Studio features on your site before purchasing

- Place your site URL in the playground enable preview
- Open the page where you Slideshow and Reel is located
- Toggle the setting **Slideshow gallery (7.1) lightbox** on the playground
- Preview the gallery lightbox on your Slideshow Gallery section

Alternately, you can enable Lightbox Studio free trial version using Ground Control, trial version allows you to try Lightbox Studio features in the Preview to ensure compatibility.

## Foire aux questions

Question: What is Squarespace Gallery section?

Gallery section is a feature of Squarespace 7.1, which is used to display sets of images in striking layouts instead of adding multiple image blocks to a block section

Question: Can Gallery section Lightbox display caption?

Yes, Gallery lightbox caption is supported out of the box in Lightbox Studio

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