Wix Pro Gallery: Adding and Customizing Text
Adding text (titles and descriptions) to your gallery items, helps site visitors get a better understanding of your media. Titles and descriptions help give context to your images and videos and shape your visitors' experience.You also have the option to add alt text to your media. Alt text helps search engines understand your content and improve your SEO, and is important for accessibility purposes. Some of your site visitors might be using screen readers, which read out the alt text to describe the media on your site.In this article, learn more about:
Adding text to gallery items Customizing the design of the text Troubleshooting text issues in your gallery Frequently asked questions (FAQs)Adding text to gallery itemsYou can add a title, description and alt text to your Wix Pro Gallery media.To add text:
Click the Pro Gallery in your editor. Click Manage Media. Select an image or video. Enter the image's title, description and alt text in the relevant fields. Click Done.Customizing the design of the textYou can also make further customizations to the text by changing the design. You can adjust the colors, use your own fonts, change the layout and much more. This helps blend the text in nicely with the image so that it complements the style of your brand.Note:Available design options depend on the gallery layout you choose.To customize the design of the text:
Click the Pro Gallery in your editor. Click Settings. Click the Design tab.  Click Texts. Choose which text you want to display: Title and / or Description. Customize the following options:Text Display
Info position: Choose where to position the text: Underneath, Above, On image, Left or Right. What happens to the info on hover?: Choose how the info displays: Appears, Disappears, or No change.Text Design
Title style & color: Click the drop-down to change the theme, font, size or formatting of the title. Click the color box to change the text's color. Description font style & color: Click the drop-down to change the theme, font, size or formatting of the description. Click the color box to change the text's color. Horizontal alignment: Choose how you want to align the text horizontally; left, right or center.  Vertical alignment: Choose how you want to align the text vertically; top, center or bottom (appears only when text is shown on the image). Adjust text box height: Choose how you want the text box height to be adjusted when resized:
    
Automatically: The text box is automatically adjusted to suit the amount of text.  Manually: The text box is adjusted manually by dragging the slider to change the height of the text box.
Note: The text box feature is only available when you select Underneath, Above, Left or Right as the info position in the Text tab of the Design settings panel. Learn more about customizing text boxes in your gallery   Text vertical padding: Drag the slider to change the space between the text and the  vertical edges of the image. Text horizontal padding: Drag the slider to change the space between the text and the top and bottom of the image. Space between titles & description: Drag the slider to increase / decrease the same between titles and descriptions.Troubleshooting text issues in your galleryText on your gallery might not appear properly if there isn't enough space for it. This might be related to your gallery design and font settings. Ensure a balance between font, image, and text box size to display all image text.Depending on the way you set up your text, click below to see how to resolve the issue:Text set to display on Hover on partial overlayGallery text may get cut off if you set it to appear on hover with only a partial overlay. To ensure your text is visible, you can make the overlay bigger. 
Click the Wix Pro Gallery in your editor. Click Settings. Click the Design tab. Click Overlay & Icons. Select Percent under Set size in. Drag the slider under Size to increase the overlay until your text appears.
 
Text set to display above or underneath imageWhen you set gallery text to appear above or underneath images, and the font size is too large, it can result in titles and descriptions being cut off. You can adjust the text box size so that all the text appears. To increase the text box size:
Click the Pro Gallery in your editor. Click Settings. Click the Design tab. Click Texts. Select Manually under Adjust text box size.
Note: This setting is only available if you chose to display the text Underneath or Above the image (under Info Position).  Drag the slider to increase the Text box size until your text appears.

Tip: You can also show gallery text that is missing by increasing the size of the gallery itself using the grab handles.Try it on mobile:You can also customize how the text looks on mobile. Click the Switch to Mobile icon from the top bar of the editor to switch to mobile settings. Here, you can choose what happens to the text when you tap the image.FAQsClick a question below to learn more about adding and customizing text in the Wix Pro Gallery.How can I upload my own fonts?Learn how to upload your own fonts directly to the editor and then use them in your gallery.How do I customize text in the Expand Mode?Learn how to customize various aspects of the text in the Expand Mode of your gallery items.Can I add a link to description text?Currently, it is not possible to hyperlink the text of a gallery item's description. Vote for this feature if you would like to see in the future.Can I add collapsible text to my gallery?Currently, it is not possible to add collapsible text to your Wix Pro Gallery. If this is something you'd like to see in the future, vote for that feature.